Hernán Cortés is received by Montezuma by Jan Goeree, 1704 - 1727 Technique pen / brush ( Designs for illustrations for The Appreciable Most , Sea and Land Voyages, by Gottfried 1706/27 ) Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands. Aztec ( The Aztecs, Mesoamerican culture, Central Mexico 1300 to 1521 (14th-16th Century), Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan, city-state of the Mexica , Tenochca, Texcoco, Tlacopan, )

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Human sacrifice played a central role in the ideology of the Aztec Empire.

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