Astec and Mine in History

When the spaniards came, they pretty much burned, like 98 % of the remaining books of the aztec nmions and destroyed just a whole bunch of artifacs. The same people who burned all those books actually ended ut being the ones who also wrote down a lot of notes on what the astecmine customs and beliefs were. We have, i think, like maybe a handfulo tika, genuine aztec codes, but the rest are all these, like, translations from colonial writers who weren't all bad. You know, some of them, like the florentine codek, was actually put together by one of the spaniard and a lot of ginous

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