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Spanish conquistadors, women, children and horses were imprisoned for months, sacrificed and eaten by contemporaries of the Aztecs, archaeologists report after unveiling new research from ruins near Mexico City.
Although Spanish chroniclers including Hernán Cortes, who led the conquest of Mexico in 1520, recorded the capture of a convoy that year, archaeologists are for the first time uncovering details of what happened when a native people first encountered the Spanish, Mexicos National Institute of Anthropology and History said in an announcement of its findings.
Only a few dozen miles from the relative safety of the Spanish army, the convoy of conquistadors and allies encountered a local people known as the Acolhuas, allies of Tetzcoco, a major Aztec city.
Somehow, the caravan archaeologists estimate it included 15 Spaniards, 45 soldiers from the colonies, 50 women, 10 children and a large number of indigenous allies was captured. Over the next six months, its members met a grisly end.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/10/conquistadors-sacrificed-eaten-aztec-acolhuas
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)Eat the flesh and drink the blood? Cool! We can do that.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)empire that would kill the Viceroy, split from Spain, and sweep and eat all before it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Cort%C3%A9s_%28son_of_do%C3%B1a_Marina%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Cort%C3%A9s,_2nd_Marquis_of_the_Valley_of_Oaxaca