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>or get captives from Tlaxcala and their allies specifically...
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Maybe there's something to there being a feedback loop of doing military expansion and that resulting in more captives and there being an incentive to maintain or exceed that amount of captives, especially since flaunting big sacrifice ceremonies to visiting kings was part of intimidating them to court them into becoming voluntary vassals or allies (as was wine-and-dining them with lavish gardens and palaces and feasts, offering political marriages, etc: This is the real reason Cortes was let into Tenochtitlan, not that he was mistaken for a god by Moctezuma: Cortes himself explictly says he wasn't), but ultimately it's hard to say that any other city clearly wouldn't or couldn't have done the same thing

There's other relevant stuff but I'll stop there

>>716287312
You'll be happy to know that that image is accurate, aside from that the Dr. ME smith isn't sure if the roofs would have been triangular or flat, and that on the maps, IIRC those show structures across all periods of occupation, so at any given point in the town's history not every single indicated structure would have still been standing or built yet

Smith has a book called "At Home with the Aztecs" about his excavations of it and other smaller or more rural sites, plus if you use the waybackmachine on some of his ASU publication pages you can read the excavation reports

>>716287705
Aztec Ecumene, it looked dogshit. They've started to advertise it again lately and they did "improve" it, but it went from like a -150 to a -50.. But realistically their entire game concept was fundamentally at odds with a authentic handling of the setting so there's only so much they could do even if they really tried. DESU I feel bad for them

>>716287540
Yes, Mossacannibalis, his Mesoamerican stuff is generally great, pic has some examples, tho there's controversies lately with him doing guro loli stuff based on real rapes

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