9. The Aztecs - A Clash of Worlds
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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Cortes' Strategy for Bringing Down the Aztec Empire
In only a few days, the spanish had already found out everything they needed to know to bring down the empire. Cortes knew that there was a king called moctezuma who ruled in a city called tenoshtelan. The first of these hammer blows would land on a people we've encountered in this story before, the people of tlash kalan. For many years now, the tlashcalans had despised the aztecs and starved them. They forced them to participate in the flower wars and killed their sons at the tops of their temples.
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