Publisher's Synopsis
Part of a series which aims to bring alive a historical period by focusing on a key figure and looking at people's daily lives; work, play, politics, art, religion and military organization. To develop historical study skills each book considers the wide variety of source materials and their reliability. The question of how to interpret evidence is also touched on, and the concepts of chronology, cause and effect are also central. The authors are established writers in the field of history for children. This book tells of life in Central America before, during and after the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores and of the fall of the Aztec Empire.
