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causal claim

Cusco's narrow avenues funneled the Inca forces into restricted routes that small numbers of defenders could block relatively effectively.

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“which means that even those overwhelming numbers could only be channeled down through those narrow avenues and those could be blocked relatively effectively even by the small numbers.”
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