Andrew Schulz

Yeah, but had it not been Europeans, it would have been somebody else.

Right, right.

100%, without a doubt, it all would have happened.

And so when you become a historian and you really start studying it, you eventually, you stop seeing... Now, there are cases where there are legitimately bad guys.

Like, this is the bad guy in the story.

But most of history is actually way more complicated than that, where you realize the two people are pitted against each other and they neither had a choice.

Right.

Um...

Okay, so they're there.

So they conquer the city of Tenochtitlan over the course of a couple of years.

And then you have Spanish chroniclers going through the city, and they are taking an account of how the Aztecs came to be.

And they hear this story that is essentially this red wedding.

And so it paints this picture of how the Aztecs came to power.

So the Aztecs were not from Mesoamerica.

Mesoamerica, class...

Mesoamerica is this El Salvador, Honduras up to here, somewhere in North Mexico, maybe even Southern New Mexico.

Like just where I was on that expedition a couple weeks ago, that may have been the northern tip of Mesoamerica.

But it's just this...

It's just this way of life.

It's kind of like the Eastern Mediterranean.