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on MOCTEZUMA II find the source of an edit of the section on "First contact with the Spanish"

its written...

On 8 November 1519, Moctezuma met Cortés on the causeway leading into Tenochtitlan and the two leaders exchanged gifts. Moctezuma gave Cortés the gift of an Aztec calendar, one disc of crafted gold and another of silver.

Whats not mentioned is that in return for the gift CORTES handed Moctezuma a bible as a gift. Apparently he proceeded to explain the Moctezuma in Spanish that that book is everything that they, the spanish, believe in. Moctezuma looked at the book, found it uninteresting, given that he cant read spanish, and threw it on the ground. And at that point a priest that was with Cortes yelled out ATTACK... and thus began a slaughter of some 5000 or so Aztecs in a single afternoon. Cortes had men on horses within earshot and an entire army of Men on horseback with swords swooped in on the aztecs and left the valley full of blood and slain bodies. it was a massacre. I read about half a dozen books that recounted the encounter. A few don't mention that part but there is one or two that do mention it. the ones that didn't mention it were written by catholics and those that did mention it seemed far more creedible sources. One of which was published back in the 50's or 30's i think.