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In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the narrative offered by the Spaniards. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were intrigued by the Roman alphabet and, unbeknownst to the newcomers, they used it to write detailed histories in their own language of Nahuatl. Until recently, these sources remained obscure, only partially translated, and rarely consulted by scholars.

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Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend Book Review

Name: algo41
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: very enlightening
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 30, 2021
Review: This is a very enlightening book. While it is a history, there is some attempt to depict what life was like, based primarily on written sources rather than all the tools modern archaeologists utilize. Interestingly, the Aztecs (or Mexica as a preferred name) themselves, post conquest, were the main sources of these writings –having become literate in Spanish, these amateur historians wrote accounts based on the oral histories and stories which existed.

What I thought I knew about the Spanish conquest was mostly erroneous. Moctezuma had a realistic understanding of the Spanish and their superior weaponry, and felt he could not afford even a successful battle because of all the men it would cost, and the impact such a loss would have on the conquered tributaries. Townsend likens the warfare to the medieval polities taking on the cities of ancient Mesopatamia, as history/civilization in the Western hemisphere began so much later than in the rest of the world. As it was, the native American allies of the Spanish were motivated by a desire to be on the winning side as well as a desire to overthrow the Aztecs. Not long after Moctezuma’s murder, the occupants of Tenochtitlan (Aztec capital) did rebel, killing most of the Spanish in the city, and (temporarily) driving the rest out.

The Aztec empire lasted only about one century, expanding throughout that time. Moctezuma instituted more direct control of the subject peoples than had previously existed. At first human sacrifice involved relatively few victims, and was very religious in spirit, although later it was used more as spectacle and to terrorize subjects. Tenochtitlan was a beautiful city of gardens, flowers, exotic birds in cages, song and dance. There were skilled tradesmen and merchants and far flung trade, using commercial polities protected from conflict. “Throughout Mesoamerica, it was understood that the children of enslaved women were never slaves themselves”. In the world of which the Aztecs were a part succession was based on competence, respect and political compromise among the leading families rather than first born, but civil war was not uncommon, with factions often allying with other polities. The Aztecs were Spartan with adolescent boys trained as warriors in Temple run schools.

Surprisingly to me, the initial smallpox plague killed “only” 1/3 of the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan, but the native Americans were subject to recurrent plagues. The Spanish became successively greedier, impoverishing them to greater and greater extents.

A final word on Townsend’s approach. I enjoyed her sketches of various historical figures, especially Cortes’ translator who played such a pivotal role. However, a more linear organization of the material might have been better, and I would recommend to those starting the book that they consider first reading the wiki article on Aztec history: it helped me clarify some of my notes.

Name: Stanley I Hall
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: New view of Aztec-Spanish clash
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 4, 2022
Review: Very interesting and novel view of the Aztec-Spanish clash and its aftermath. Good read.

Name: Amy Cueto
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Review of the physical book
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 15, 2020
Review: While purchasing books online, it is very difficult to know what the physical book will actually look like. Unfortunately most websites do not go into detail on the font size, images and quality of their product. When purchasing a more expensive book, I would like to be able to preview what I will be spending my hard earned money on to then be able to decide if I want to buy or check out the item from the library. Here are pictures I have taken of the purchased book of which I paid 23.94 for. Note the pictures in the description above, which are in color from other reviews and in the Amazon listing. The book has a beautiful waxy dust jacket, the book binding is of nice quality, the paper feels decent in quality, and the font is the size I prefer for reading. There is a decent amount of notes, bibliography and references. One flaw I have is that I wish the notes would be on their corresponding pages as I hate flipping back and forth to read any extra information that pertains to what I read. I’m more than likely going to just read the notes straight through and then missing the actual benefits they would have given me at the time of reading, my own harp, not speaking for anyone else. My biggest complaint is that I did not receive any of the high quality images shown above in the description. My images were included on chapter pages, small and not in color. No full size color images, which I would have thought would be included for the price of the book. I would have rather had this book in paperback and the money the publisher spent on the hardback had been spent on colored images and more image content. I have not read the book yet and will update my review to include that when I am done. The quality of the book is a four as I can see the publisher did want to give a good product, however the product lacks imagery of which I feel could have benefited the reader far more than the binding and dust jacket.

Name: Warren
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Lucid and engrossing
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 9, 2020
Review: The best histories are those that upend everything you were taught in history class. With Fifth Sun, Camilla Townsend has offered a powerful, intelligently written overview of the people of central Mexico. (Erroneously called Aztecs, more on this below). A reader of this book will come away with a new understanding of their remarkable history.

Often in discussions this period, the Spanish conquest plays a central role in the story. Obviously that history is presented here. The violence done to the inhabitants of central Mexico though, is frequently seen as almost an erasure, or annihilation of their culture. As Prof Townsend documents, while suffering catastrophic losses to the disease, killings and enslavement by the Spaniards, these people did not disappear. Their culture and language live on. (She helpfully presents an easy-to-understand primer of local pronunciations, including for Mexica, the people of the Valley of Mexico).

The violence done even extended to their names. The word 'Aztec' we learn, was fabricated by European scholars centuries after the conquest. Townsend flatly notes : "No people ever called themselves that." She also puts the lie to several myths involving the Mexica, such as their understanding of their religion, and of the Europeans themselves. The idea that the Mexica viewed Hernan Cortes and the other Spaniards as the incarnation of their gods, was a story cooked up by the Europeans (Prof Townsend includes an appendix listing the primary sources). Each chapter is like a window into a world of a people on the verge of catastrophic change. Highly recommended.