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The speaker says younger Tlaxcalans considered Cuitláhuac’s alliance proposal, but older leaders rejected it because they had fought the Aztecs for decades and still saw them as the existential threat.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“The Lashkalan younger generation thought about it, but the old men who still retained power,”
“who had been fighting against the Aztecs for decades and saw them as, in the end, the existential threat,”
“repudiated this possibility.”Play from 1:25:17Report a misattribution
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