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The 80k sacrifice number is widely disputed, the excavated skull rack from the event has 12k skulls There were ~3000 Conquistadors due to reinforcements, and 100,000s of soldiers from local city-states Cortes explicitly said Montezuma saw him as human, not a god https://eleconomista.com.mx/arteseideas/Gran-Tzompantli-de-Tenochtitlan-una-leccion-ideologica-20181114-0143.html http://www.famsi.org/research/pohl/pohl_meeting.html#HISTORICAL https://www.google.com/books/edition/Letters_from_Mexico/4_2JuxPFXkEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22I%20am%20of%20flesh%20and%20blood%20like%20you%22 https://historycooperative.org/journal/burying-the-white-gods-new-perspectives-on-the-conquest-of-mexico/#more-2435 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Myths_of_the_Spanish_Conquest
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