but what lay ahead was the destruction of their way of life at the hands of the Spanish.
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present ( New York: Harper Perennial, 1995), 1.
Nigel Davies, The Ancient Kingdoms of Mexico ( New York: Penguin Books, 1987), 26-27.
Eric Wolf, Sons of the Shaking Earth: The People of Mexico and Guatemala -- Their Land, History and Culture ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959), 102.
Davies, The Ancient Kingdoms of Mexico, 78.
Publication information: Book title: The History of Mexico. Contributors: Burton Kirkwood - Author. Publisher: Greenwood Press. Place of publication: Westport, CT. Publication year: 2000. Page number: 30.