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SUMMARY:Thinking about the Aztec Economy
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Wednesday &middot\; 10 December 2025</strong></p>\n<p><strong>12 noon ET / 5 pm GMT / 10.30 pm IST</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Register:&nbsp\;</strong><strong>https://forms.gle/WfMBevJHW8NdUAzG9</strong></p>\n<p>The is a free\, virtual event.</p>\n<p>When he first entered the Tlatelolco marketplace in 1519\, the Spaniard Bernal D&iacute\;az wrote that he had &lsquo\;never seen such a thing before&rsquo\;. The abundance and variety of goods there far eclipsed the great bazaars of the Old World these exhausted sailors had only read about. How did a civilization with no cart or pack animal manage to build such a thriving site of commercial exchange?</p>\n<p>In this lecture\, <strong>Frances Berdan</strong> explores how canoes\, porters and tribute knit the Aztec economic world together in a world before capitalism.</p>\n<p>Frances F. Berdan is professor emerita of anthropology at California State University\, San Bernardino. Her latest book is <em>The Aztec Economy</em> (Cambridge University Press\, 2023).</p>\n<p>This lecture launches <strong>Money before Capitalism</strong>\, a series on premodern finance&mdash\;property\, credit and currencies&mdash\;and the worlds it might have brought into being.</p>
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