History > Conquest of Mexico > Aztec culture				Artefacts
	The lasting tragedy of Mexico's history was the destruction in the early sixteenth-century of the Aztec civilisation by a small brutal band of Spanish mercenaries.
	Ignacio Marquina's reconstruction (at the National Museum of Anthropology) of the Great Pyramid and adjacent buildings as they might have appeared to Cortés and his men in November 1519. From Townsend, The Aztecs, 14.
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