"...so great was the bloodshed that rivers of blood ran through the courtyard like water in a heavy rain. So great was the slime of blood and entrails in the courtyard and so great was the stench that it was both terrifying and heartrending. Now that nearly all were fallen and dead, the Spaniards went searching for those who had climbed up the temple and thos who had hidden among the dead, killing all those they found alive..."
excerpt from an account of the brutal destruction of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan from the native perspective.
by Bernardino de Sahagun
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