Word: mesheeca
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...English of the Spanish Civil War, has taken the heady risk of challenging a landmark of 19th century American historiography: William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843). Thomas' account is richer in detail than Prescott's, more balanced in its assessment of the Mexica (pronounced mesheeca; the author insists that this is a more authentic name for the conquered people than Aztec). But Prescott's narrative has a grace and flow that Conquest simply cannot match -- not least because in the latter work countless sentences contain a hedging "presumably," "perhaps" or "it must have seemed...
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