The codex also describes the Aztec conquest of the city of Tetepilco around 1440 and how that city's ruler swore vassalage to the Aztecs. It even details the arrival of the Spanish in 1519 and their ...

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The Aztecs deliberated on how to continue their traditions and preserve their group identity following the Spanish invasion.

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Waco's skeletal mariachi band gets a new neighbor this year at the annual Traveling Ofrenda with an equally fantastical alebrije, a vividly colored imaginary creature of Mexican folk art.