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In the Aztec prisoner hierarchy, four Totonacs were valued as equivalent to one Chichimec, whom the speaker described as a wilder northern tribe that fought more fiercely than the Totonacs.
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“There was even like a hierarchy in terms of the prisoners,”
“like that four totonacs were worth one Chichimec because the Chichimec were a wilder tribe to the north and fought more fiercely than the totonacs did.”Play from 1:10:06Report a misattribution
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