Hansen, Linda 2024. Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica. p. 393. How can men be brought to look steadily on the face of battle? Tenochtitlán, the great city of the Aztecs, was the creation of war, ...

The altar dates is thought to date back to the period between 1521, when Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés defeated the Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán, and 1610. The battle of Tenochtitlán is ...