The City Of Dreams: The Aztec Conquest Part 1
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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The Aztecs - Sacrifice Farms
The majority of sacrifices were prisoners of war, captives taken from neighboring cities. The constant daily need for new sacrifices meant that a steady flow of slaves and captives had to always be pouring across the causeways of laketex coco into tinechitlan. Sitting atop this powder keg was a man you have very likely heard of before, the emperor moctezuma the second. He's sometimes called montezuma too, but apparently Moctezuma is closer to the original name in the aztec language.
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