The City Of Dreams: The Aztec Conquest Part 2
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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Cortes and the Aztecs Meet in a Formal Setting
Cortes and his captains are taken to meet the emperor, montezuma. This is the meeting that causes historians to get into fisticuffs because we don't really know what happened. But paradoxically, the content of this meeting influences the course of events in a huge way. We never got the aztec side of the story, which is frustrating,. In the spanish accounts, monteZuma's behavior makes absolutely zero sense.
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