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The speaker says Spanish colonizers could justify their violence by invoking Mesoamerican human sacrifice, which he describes as endemic and deeply ingrained in local society.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“They could rationalise that in...”
“Mesoamerica in reference to that cult of sacrifice,”
“which was endemic, ingrained into the mentalities of those people.”Play from 1:21:28Report a misattribution
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