-=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Karolina Stutzman <=-
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 SB> What most people don't know is that they also won the first battle
 SB> with the Europeans, in spite of the fact that they had neither guns nor
 SB> horses. What destroyed them was not the superior weapons of the
 SB> colonists.  It was the diseases of the colonists: smallpox and measles
 SB> and even the common cold, diseases they had never encountered before.
 SB> By the time of the second battle, over half the population was dead,
 SB> and most of the rest were very, very ill.
 
 The invaders were also aided by rebellious tribes (as well as Cortes'
 mistress, Malinche) that didn't take too kindly to the regime of Montezuma.
 And it is difficult to tell how much of the Aztec culture was _really_
 theirs or how much belonged to the territory and the peoples _they_
 invaded such as the Toltecs.
 If one had been Toltec, Olmec, etc., I suspect that they would look upon the
 Aztecs much the same as Native Americans view the European invasion today.
 
 Jim
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