A History of the World in 100 Objects is a History Documentary programme.

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A History of the World in 100 Objects: 84: Mexican Codex Map

Series 1, episode 84

Director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor retells the history of human development using 100 selected objects from the Museum. Today he is with a document that shows what happened after Catholic Spain's conquest of Mexico - it's an old map, or codex, that was made at the height of the Spanish church building boom in Mexico