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Referenced when discussing Mexica cosmology and their beliefs about blood sacrifice keeping the sun rising and falling. The hosts note that Townsend is 'brilliant on this' topic.

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Referenced when discussing the importance of understanding Spanish religious motivations. The hosts cite Cervantes' argument that you cannot understand the conquest if you think the Spanish were simply greedy and violent.

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Referenced as a 'brilliant, brilliant book on the meeting between Montezuma and Cortez.' The book is discussed extensively regarding the theory that Montezuma may have been collecting the Spaniards for his zoo and that the standard narrative of Montezuma immediately surrendering is implausible.