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Bernal Díaz’s firsthand account describes human-sacrifice remains in temples and cities across nearly every town, including small outlying villages in the empire.

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“billy um bernal diaz who wrote like was on this cortez's expedition and wrote a firsthand account of what happened afterwards he basically says in his account that basically in every single town we come across even small outlying villages on the empire”
“every temple every city just has tons of human sacrifice remains left over so this is just an endemic part of the society that i guess must have horrified the spanish i mean they weren't exact um it's hard to square any sort of”
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