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Moctezuma II escalated ritual flower wars into successive campaigns of encirclement and annihilation against the Tlaxcalans; the speaker describes him as an autocrat.
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“And he was the one who was amping up the.”
“ritualistic flower wars into successive campaigns of encirclement and annihilation for the Lashkalans. So he was, in every sense of the word,”
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