# Aztec economy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aztec-economy/218749>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 13, 2003, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aztec-economy/218749 "2003-12-13T06:33:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aztec-economy/218749/21 "2011-03-23T16:23:07Z")

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> [@Bridget\_Burke](#):
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> Albrecht Dürer, on seeing the first Aztec artifacts in Europe, expressed his wonder. (His travels had exposed him to most European art & he knew that he was a master. Then he discovered there were _other_ masters across the great ocean sea!)

To be fair, I could see why an ur-Goth like Dürer would be attracted to the notoriouly skull-obsessed Aztecs.

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