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The Spanish effectively recruited local sub-chiefs under Aztec authority by appealing to the possibility of better terms under Spanish rule.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“that you're so special to me and this this was effective in binding them together and and they were very very clever in identifying the local sub chiefs beneath the Aztec layer of authority who would be receptive to the idea of why you're taking orders from them when you get a better deal from us right they knew for example in”Play from 1:35:27Report a misattribution
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