The Florentine Codex and the Aztecs

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There's a few things the oldest argument is to basically discount everything that said about the Aztecs because some of it was written by the conquistadors. That argument kind of falls on its face a little bit, says Wallomius. Most of what we actually know about the atrocities that the Spanish committed were written by a Catholic priest named Delicassas who you know documented like the very gory details of burning people at the stake and flaying people as punishment to Indian slaves. The West has this tendency towards self-reflection analysis and anger or hatred at our own past even while there are heroic events happening elsewhere in the world. I want to say it's a by

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