causal claim
The speaker says Montezuma's decision to remain in his capital made him a target, and that capturing him enabled Cortes to control the entire Aztec Empire.
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“that circumstance but because Moctezuma stayed in his capital he made himself the target once he was taken this was the key to controlling the entire empire at that point”14:06Report a misattribution
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