The Aztecs (Ticktock Books: Early Civilizations)

Barron's Ticktock books feature handsome full-color magazine-style layouts that present fascinating information on a wide variety of subjects. Books in Ticktock's Early Civilizations series tell the stories of cultures around the world -- how they came into existence, their achievements, their leaders, the disasters they endured, their military exploits, their religions, arts, technologies, and much more. Ticktock books are fun to read, and make fine sources of ideas for school essays and class projects.Brought to life in text and illustrations is the vast and highly sophisticated pre-Columbian civilization that radiated from what is now Mexico City -- then called Tenochtitlan -- until its conquest by Spanish explorers under Cortez in the 1500s.Barron's is the author of 'The Aztecs (Ticktock Books: Early Civilizations)' with ISBN 9780764110832 and ISBN 0764110837.