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Conquistadors and Border Disruption

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The Conquerors of Tinochilin

The Aztecs were fanatics, but they didn't understand the Spanish version of Catholicism that was embattled against Islam and Protestantism. And so when you put those ingredients together and you get 100 conquistadors and horses and lances without fanaticism, they would just turned around and went right for at the Battle of Attumba. They wiped out all of the Aztec captains and stopped the the pursuit. Then what did they do? They went back to Tinochilin where they had a fleet in there with reinforcements from Veracruz. But like every conqueror, they always say afterwards: "I didn't really mean to"

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