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Aztec mother training her daughters, Florentine Codex

The wisdom of Aztec parents

If there was one aspect of daily Aztec life that most impressed the conquering Spanish, it was the way they educated and brought up their children. In the first of this special two-part feature, prepared by our researcher Julia Flood, learn just how seriously the Aztecs took the whole subject of teaching the next generation to be good citizens, starting with the nobility...

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Main picture: Florentine Codex, Book VI, scanned from our own copy of the Club Internacional del Libro 3-volume facsimile edition, Madrid, 1994.

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