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After Cortez confronted him and took him into custody, Moctezuma’s worldview and psychology collapsed, and he meekly allowed himself to be led away.
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“And this is the moment when Moctezuma's entire worldview just collapses. Nobody had spoken to him like this before.”
“His psychology just disintegrates at that point and he meekly allows himself to be taken”
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