Andrew Schulz

Right.

and wasting that is really just like taking somebody's like you kill somebody for their money and then you throw their money on the street and then it's like that guy's it's totally antithetical to your whole existence so the aztecs were actually horrified by how mercilessly the spaniards could just you know like march through thousands of people and slaughter them without a second thought and then the spaniards betray the aztecs

Yeah, yeah.

So nobody really knows what exactly happened, but the Spaniards are held up in the palace with Montezuma, and one way or another, Montezuma dies while he's in the palace with the Spaniards.

Alone.

Alone with him.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So there's all different kinds of ways that people think it happened.

Probably the Spaniards just killed him.

Right.

He was the emperor of the Aztec world.

Facts.

It is Caloacan's Revenge.

Right?

Oh, yeah.

All the sites across Mesoamerica are built on... It's all built right next to water.

When we were on that expedition in the Gila, it was just so obvious.

What's Gila?

It's that southern tip of New Mexico that I was talking about might be the northern end of Mesoamerica, of ancient Mesoamerica.

And so when we were there, man, it was just so obvious how crucial not only being near water, but being right on it was.