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Artifact # 5: Image From Aztec Trapping Magliabechiano

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Artifact #5: Image from Aztec Codex Magliabechiano, circa 1600s

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People want history to give them the answers that they want to hear. They want history to be told in a way that praises their society, benefits their community, and removes all wrong that they otherwise may have felt if their history was interpreted in a different way. Those who want their history to be told ideally are those who are in power, those who have control over what can and cannot be documented; officials, leaders. In this case, those leaders were the Europeans who obliterated Aztec society in 1519 and gained complete control over them, providing themselves the ability to paint over history in a way that would glorify themselves. In an image illustrated by

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