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Quotes from Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico — Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton

1931–2017 England

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The experience of the Mayas is one more reminder that any interpretation of human evolution based on the idea of unilineal progress forwards (or upwards) is an illusion. Peoples decline as well as rise.

Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico (1993)

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