Norse and Aztecs · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Cholula massacre (1519)
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October 1519 — In the sacred city of Cholula the Spaniards and their Tlaxcalan allies killed thousands of people in the temple courtyards, Cortés admitting about 3,000. He claimed to have forestalled an ambush; other accounts describe a deliberate act of terror.
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- Fall of the Aztec Empire (chapter 11 of Norse and Aztecs)
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- Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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