Ed Calderon

They were very much specifically kind of utilized for psychological effect.

Just to fuck with people.

Yeah, make them not sleep.

During these flower wars where they would have with, I think, the classical Tecans, they had this agreement where they would go and try and capture people to bring back to the pyramid to sacrifice.

Um, and the way they would, they would, uh, you know, tire them is to blow those at night where they were in camp or where the, where the places where they were about to attack.

So, you know, lose sleep with those, like a few hundred of those just people can be really devious.

Yeah.

When they know how to mess with your head.

Yeah.

The Mexica, people glorify a lot of people from Mexico.

Everybody's Aztec.

You're probably not Aztec.

You're probably some other tribe that didn't lose that initial conquest.

But that's the losing side, though.

The Spanish came and allied themselves with everybody that hated the Aztecs.

Oh.

Including like the Tlaxcaltecans, who were apparently like badasses.

The Aztecs used to send tax collectors out to them, and apparently one of them didn't come back, according to one story.

And the soldiers came over like, hey, where's our tax collector?

Let's feed you before we talk about anything.