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    An Aztec account of the Spanish attack | The American Yawp Reader
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    1. jonathanhu 20 Oct 2024
      During this same time, The Sun commanded that Montezuma and Itzcohuatzin, the military chief of Tlatelolco, be made prisoners. The Spaniards hanged a chief from Acolhuacan named Nezahualquentzin. They also murdered the king of Nauhtla, Cohualpopocatzin, by wounding him with arrows and then burning him alive.

      So there had already been bloodshed caused by the Spanish? Yet the Aztecs still hosted them with hospitality... could this be due to the fact that Montzuma & co. thought they were gods?

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