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Welcome back to Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire.
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Unfortunately, we are visiting Tenochtitlan at very, very bad
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time, because after the last mission, Erdan Cortez actually
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managed to gain access to the city and was received by
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Muktatsuma, almost certainly against his will, as his guest.
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This was partly due to the fact that Cortez had succeeded in
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bringing the Tlacskalans, the Aztecs enemies, to his side, and
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had also added several other people to his alliance against
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the Aztecs, thus commanding a considerable army.
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On November 8th, 1519, Cortez appeared at the gates of
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Tenochtitlan and was allowed into the city by Moctezuma the
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Second. And what a city.
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Tenochtitlan must have been built on several islands and the
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western part of Lake Texcoco in what is today called the Valley
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of Mexico. This city stood over 2200 meters
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above sea level and was home to more than 100,000 people.
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One source even mentions 150,000, which made Tenochtitlan
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not only the largest city in the Americas, but also one of the
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largest cities in the world. At that time, the valley in
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which the lake was located was open only to the West and
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otherwise surrounded in all other directions by a mountain
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range of volcanoes. 5 dams or embankments allowed access in
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and out of the city, making it almost impossible to conquer it
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by force. At the city center stood the
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Temple O Mayor, a great temple which was the destination of all
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major roads and where the Aztec rulers built their palaces.
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The city was divided into four quarters by the main roads, and
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there was also port that facilitated trade with other
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cities. There were no walls, no city
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walls, since the lake itself provided natural protection.
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Stretching out from the islands into the lake were countless
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chinampas, or you know, the floating gardens which the
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Aztecs used for agriculture, making the land around the lake
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even more swampy than it already had been.
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The sight of the city must have been truly awe inspiring.
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Passed down to you by Kwath Demuk, prisoner of Tenochtitlan.
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The next omen we did not see, but heard the voice of a weeping
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woman who cried in the night that she could not hide her
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children. Indecision plagued Emperor
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Montezuma. Was this man Quezar Cuatl?
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Was he just a man? As the emperor brooded, the
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citizens grew restless. Cortez kept a close watch on the
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emperor, and soon Montezuma became a prisoner in his own
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palace. Thus did the Spanish take the
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Nostitlan without a siege. The Spanish collected all of the
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gold they could find. They were not interested in our
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art or ornaments, but merely melted down the gold for the
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return to Spain. They also outlawed any further
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sacrifice to the gods. When the priests protested, they
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were killed. The citizens and warriors of the
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Nazi land were enraged. We knew, even if our emperor did
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not, that these men were not gods.
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Riots broke out in the marketplace and at the palace
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when Montezuma himself appear on the walls urging the Aztecs to
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be at peace, that people threw stones at him.
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It was time to remove the so-called gods from Tenostiklan.
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I've already mentioned in earlier episodes that the story
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as it's often told here isn't entirely accurate.
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Contrary to what is commonly portrayed, the Aztecs did not
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believe Cortez was Khetzai Kuatl, and they actually wanted
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to get rid of him. But the rest is kind of true.
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Six days after Cortez entered Tenochtitlan, Moctezuma the
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second was more or less placed under house arrest by the
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Spanish, though the exact circumstances of how this came
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about remain unclear. The Spanish allegedly used an
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Aztec attack on the city of Veracruz, which had been founded
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by Cortez, as a pretext to capture Moktatzuma.
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This attack did in fact happen, and seven Spaniards were killed
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in the process. And of course, we're not going
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to talk about all the Aztecs victims in this conflict.
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But there are also sources suggesting that Cortez had
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planned to take Moktatzuma captive even way before he had
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arrived in the city. According to one source, Cortez
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even said himself that the capture of Moktatzuma was simply
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a precaution, given that essentially his entire military
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force was stationed within the Aztec Empire, and he knew very
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well that he was completely at Moktatzuma's mercy.
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When Cortez arrived in Tenochtitlan, Moktatzuma allowed
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him to stay in what was known as the Old House of Moktatzuma.
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That might sound a bit shabby, but it was actually a palace.
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Shortly afterward, however, Maktad Zuma joined his guests
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because he was placed under house arrest by the Spanish in
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that very building, and over the following months, Cortez even
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fortified it and placed cannons inside.
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Cortez had thus succeeded in making his way to the heart of
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Tenochtitlan and taking control of the city from within.
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He took Mokkadzuma, the second captive, in order to rule
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through him. That's why Mokkadzuma continued
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to be honoured by the Spanish and was even allowed to fulfill
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some of his duties. Spanish soldiers who failed to
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treat him with respect were, according to the orders of
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Cortez, harshly punished. On the other hand, according to
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some other sources, Moktatsuma the Second was little more than
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a puppet of the Spanish. He gave in when they put up
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Christian icons and removed Aztec images, and when the
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population, especially the nobility, protested, Moktatsuma
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even handed over some nobles to the Spanish.
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The residents of Tenochtitlan grew increasingly dissatisfied
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with their king, and Moktatsuma realized he was beginning to
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lose his power. In April 1520, he suggested to
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the Spanish that they probably want to leave the city soon.
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These events eventually led to the Aztecs to attempt to drive
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the Spanish out of Tenochtitlan, an event we now re enact this
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4th mission. The mission begins in the midst
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of the Spanish siege of Tenochtitlan.
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We start out controlling a single Jaguar warrior South of
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the Lake Texcocco, so way outside of Tenochtitlan, and we
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must find reinforcements. I must make my way back to
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Tenochtitlan and end the Spanish influence there.
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But how? But this Jaguar warrior is no
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ordinary Jaguar warrior. He has 37 attack power, even
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without being the elite version, and without having taken
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advantage of the bonus that his attack increases once he kills
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enemies. Our goal now is to move along
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the coast of Lake Texkoco to find allies before we begin the
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reconquest of Tenochtitlan. However, we don't have much time
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for that, because right at the start of the mission we learned
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that Cortez has begun constructing a wander and we are
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tasked with destroying it. So I set off immediately,
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heading South at first, where I find a group of Eagle Warriors,
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Pikemen and Skirmisher. If you truly mean to free
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Tenochtitlan, then we will fight alongside you.
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Many Aztecs are held prisoner to the north.
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They would join us as well. This is a great hint, and the
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location of the prisoners is revealed to me on the map.
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The prison camp is in the northwest, so I turn around and
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continue making my way through the jungle along the lake.
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Soon I encounter more Eagle Warriors who join my forces.
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There are transports on the beach ahead but they are
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guarded. We will need several Aztec
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warriors to defeat them. The guards assigned to protect
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the transport ships are Clex Caltex, our enemies and allies
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of the Spanish. The guards don't cause much
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trouble, but the bridge is a different story as it is guarded
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by countless Jaguar warriors. So I decided not to cross that
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bridge. Instead, I stole the transport
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ships and crossed the Lake Texaco with them without the
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Clexicaltex noticing me. Unfortunately, I'm spotted upon
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landing in the West by two conquistadors.
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What are you doing so close to the city?
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Stirring up trouble, no doubt. Thanks to my skirmishers, I'm
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the last thing those two will ever see and I continue heading
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north and then find a TLEX Caltech priest.
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A clash, Galen priest. We must be cautious.
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I wonder what would happen if we open the Jaguar pen.
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Next to the priest is a pen with five Jaguars in it.
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For some reason, this monk is staring at the Jaguars and is
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not threatened by them at all. But for whatever other reason, I
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am in control of the palicide walls that make up the pen.
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So I do the only logical thing and delete one of the palicide
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walls and and therefore the Jaguar warriors can feast on
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that monk and once they kill the priest they calmly walk off.
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That was a very satisfying moment and I gotta say it was
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also very funny because the way they just walked off was kind of
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comedic. I'm not used to this kind of
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humor in Age of Empires 2 campaign, so it did make me
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smile. Shortly later something strange
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happens. I come across a completely
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random onager standing alone on a hill, which of course I take
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with me, even though I have no idea who put that onager there
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and just left it there. Nearby.
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Of course, purely by coincidence there are a few Jaguar warriors
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below the hill which I take out with a well aimed shot.
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Soon after I meet some Allied Eagle warriors who want to join
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my fight against the Spanish. Montezuma was tricked by the
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Spanish. Vengeance shall be ours.
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Finally, I reach the imprisoned warriors, whom I immediately
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free. They include Eagle Warriors,
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Jaguar Warriors, and additional skirmishers.
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We have reached the Tlaxcala outpost.
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We do not have time to destroy every building.
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Let us free the prisoners and escape.
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Vengeance shall be ours. We can gather our strengths
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across the lake, but to get there we must steal a transport
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from Tenochtitlan. The transport ships I used
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earlier. No help now as they are on the
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wrong side of the embankment. At first I assume I'll find more
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transport ships further north, but instead I run into a Plex
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Caltech castle, forcing me to cross the embankment toward
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Tenochtitlan. There the Spanish are already
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waiting for me with a few conquistadors and manganos as
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well, which unfortunately destroys some of my skirmishes
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and even my honager. Turns out this isn't even
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Tenochtitlan, it's a Slateloko, a once independent city on a
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Northern Ireland near Tenochtitlan, which later became
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part of it. Here I find a dock and some
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transport ships, and I'll use these to sail around
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Tenochtitlan and travel east. There I find an abandoned
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settlement with lots of turkeys and Berry bushes, gold and stone
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deposits, A dense jungle, a temple and a few monks.
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We can train priests at this monastery and use them to
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capture villagers from Tenochtitlan.
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Yes, so that's how I get my eco going.
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Since I started the mission with 900 food, wood and gold each and
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600 stone, I instantly researched block printing for my
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monks so they could convert from greater distance as well as
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illumination so they would recharge their faith faster.
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I then set off with my warriors to cross the embankment toward
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Tenochtitlan together with my monks in order to convert
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villages. Conveniently, one woodcutting
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villager was revealed right when they told me to convert the
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villagers, and it was revealed to me on the map.
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Naturally, he became my first target.
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I converted three villages this way, but all my upgrades were
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useless against the trebuchet stationed behind enemy walls.
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The Trebuchet of Doom, which obviously blessed with honey
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precision, hit and killed 2 of my monks while they were walking
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away in just two single shots. That's some bad luck right
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there. But I got my villagers, and
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these converted villagers then began constructing multiple town
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centers in the abandoned settlement, and I started
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booming. But of course the Spanish had
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noticed what I've done. They sent their ships and from
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the lake they could bombard me with galleons and cannon
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galleons. And yes, they have ships.
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I don't know why and where they've built them, because they
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don't have a harbor. At least they shouldn't have one
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in Tenochtitlan. And they also sunk all their
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ships, which by the way, were in the sea and not on Lake Texcoco.
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So this is kind of weird and unexpected for me, but well, I
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had to live with it and find a solution for this problem.
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And then I figured out, well, I have only one line of defence
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and those are my monks. So I kept converting ships until
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I had enough stone to build a castle on the shore of that
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lake. That was surprisingly tricky,
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but the moment my castle covered the shoreline I was safe to
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boom. I then researched every
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technology that would strengthen my eagle and Jaguar warriors,
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gathered 10 brave villages and four trips, and went back across
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the embankment to now lay siege on Tenochtitlan.
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I took my villages with me because I had a great plan.
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I wanted to basically guard my traps with my own castle so they
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could not be sniped. But again, I kind of forgot the
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trebuchet of Doom. And for some reason I I'm
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actually convinced that the AI had to attack ground and
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anticipate where my castle would be built.
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Because the moment I started hammering that castle, there was
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already an incoming shot of the trebuchet and it instantly
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sniped away my castle. So there was no castle for me.
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That trebuchet, I'm telling you, that was one hell of a
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trebuchet. And it actually stalled out my
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siege, my push on Tenochtitlan long enough that the Spanish
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actually managed to finish their wonder.
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Well, fine by me. I started raiding Tenochtitlan
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and kill basically everyone inside of Tenochtitlan.
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Every Clacks Caltech, every Spaniard with my Eagle Warriors
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and Jaguar Warriors. And then I started firing at
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that wonder. I wanted to tear it down, just
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like the Trebuchet of Doom tore down my castle and both my monks
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at the beginning and suddenly there was a Thunder clap and
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wonder was destroyed. The Spanish thought that the
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Nostitlan was theirs, but they did not count on the strength
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and courage of astic warriors. And so we succeeded in driving
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the Spanish out of Tenochtitlan, an event known in history as a
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La Noche Triste, which also gives this mission its name.
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The Spanish called it La Noche Triste, which meant the Night of
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Sorrows in their language. At first the Spanish barricaded
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themselves in our homes and palaces, but we continuously
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attack their quarters with stones, slings, and arrows.
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He drove the Spanish and trash gallons through the streets of
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TE Nashik Land and across the Three Bridges and over the walls
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into Lake Peshtoko. Thousands died.
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Those Spanish that were not killed by makanas or javelins
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were drowned by the weight of the treasure they refused to
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leave behind. The Nazik Land lay in ruin, but
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the city was ours again. Many brave Aztec warriors died
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that night as well, including noble Montezuma.
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The Spanish claimed that our own people had killed him with
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thrown stones. Thus it was a night of sorrows
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for us as well. So says Cuao Demu, defender of
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Tenochtitlan. La Noche Triste took place on
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the 30th of June in 1520, but we understand what had happened.
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We need to go back a bit and fill in a gap that the campaign
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left out. In May 1520, Cortez actually
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left Tenochtitlan again because he had learned that his former
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superior, Velasquez, the governor of Cuba, had sent over
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1000 soldiers to arrest him. Cortez had defied the governor's
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orders. If you've forgotten, not only by
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leaving Cuba, but also by launching a conquest instead of
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just exploring the Americas. Cortez, once he had found out
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about this raiding party of Velasquez, he gathered around
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250 soldiers and launched a surprise attack on the Spanish
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reinforcements. Yes, Cortez fought against the
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Spanish. He won the battle, and all
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surviving soldiers swore allegiance to him, probably
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because he promised them endless wealth and gold while he was
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cleaning up behind him, however, the situation in Tenochtitlan
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was growing increasingly unstable.
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In Cortez's absence, his deputy, known for his brutality, had
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several Aztec nobles executed. As a result, the number of Aztec
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soldiers in the city grew rapidly.
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During a spring festival, a massacre occurred in the main
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square of Tenochtitlan. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of
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Aztecs were slaughtered by the Spanish in the temple courtyard.
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The commonly cited reason for this happening is that Cortez's
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deputy did not understand that the Aztecs were actually
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celebrating and he was panicking and lost control.
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The Aztecs then drove the Spanish back into their quarters
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and began to besiege them. Meanwhile, Cortez received news
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of the events. How, I have no idea, because
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that means there must have been someone running around between
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10 of Chitlan and Cortez. But he faced a serious problem
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himself. His large force composed of
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soldiers. From that he captured camp
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followers like cooks and merchants and newly allied
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native warriors. This army was moving very
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slowly, too slowly to reach Tenochtitlan in time, so he
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decided to ride ahead with a handful of his best soldiers,
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hurrying back Tenochtitlan as fast as he could.
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He arrived on the 24th of June, 6 days before La Noche Triste,
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and to his surprise he was allowed to enter the city
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without any resistance. But this is too good to be true,
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because shortly after he entered the city, he watched that all
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the drawbridges from the embankments were raised again,
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and he realized that he was trapped in the middle of the
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enemy's base. Six days passed as the Spanish
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used up their supplies and grew more and more desperate.
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Of course, they had high hopes because they knew that there
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were reinforcements coming, but they actually never made it to
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Tenochtitlan because they were ambushed by warriors from
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Texcoco, taken to the city of Sultapec and sacrifice there,
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550 people were offered to the gods over a span of six months.
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Cortez. Once he realized that there were
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no reinforcements coming for him, he had no choice but to
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bring his only remaining asset into play, King Moktatsuma
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himself. So he brought him to the palace
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roof, hoping that he could use his authority to calm the
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enraged Aztecs. But he was mistaken.
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The Aztecs are said to have thrown stones at their ruler
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instead. Contrary to what Quaktimov just
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told us, Maktutsuma didn't actually die during La Noche
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Triste, but a few days earlier. According to the Spanish, he
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died from the injuries caused by the stone throwing.
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According to the Aztecs, he was murdered in cold blood by the
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spanner. To this day no one really knows
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the truth. But not sure how you feel about
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this. I'm actually inclined to believe
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the Aztecs in this case. And I mean it would make sense
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right? The the king is pretty much
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useless to Cortez and his men and so why would they keep him
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alive and have to feed him with their supplies running low from
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day-to-day? So with no king left to
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manipulate, Cortez and his men had no option but to flee the
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city, which they did on the night of the 30th of June 1520.
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La Noche Triste, Moktatsuma's successor wasn't Kwak Timok by
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the way, not at first. It was actually Moktatsuma's
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brother, whose name is so unpronounceable to me that I
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won't even try. He was the one who led the Aztec
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army during La Noche Triste, and while the battle was a success
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for him, his reign was very short.
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He died just four months later in October 1520, like so many
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other Aztecs, after contracting smallpox, a disease brought by
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the Spanish completely unknown to the Aztecs, who had no
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natural immunity. Only after his death did
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Kwoktemoc, a cousin of Muktutsuma's brother, become the
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ruler of the Aztec Empire. Now imagine this.
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You've defeated the far superior army of the Spanish, only to be
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so weakened by an invisible enemy, a disease, that the
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Spanish are given a second chance.
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How bitter the fate of the Aztecs must have been, and how
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delighted must the other people and tribes in the region have
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been to see the mighty Aztecs suffer this much.
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So as you can see, there was no conquest of Tenochtitlan by the
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Aztecs as portrayed in this mission.
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This never actually happened because Tenochtitlan was never
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to be conquered by the Aztecs. They always were inside the
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city. And of course, Cortez didn't
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build a wander in the center of Tenochtitlan, but I like to
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think that this is more symbolic, representing the
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moment he, I mean Cortez, removed the Aztec idols and
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replaced them with Christian icons.
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Anyway, back to the legendary escape of the Spanish.
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Their plan was quite daring. They didn't have much to work
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with, they actually only had their place where they lived.
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So they started using palace beams to construct makeshift
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bridges to cross the lake. But the Aztecs were ready and
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gave them hell. Unlike in the mission, it wasn't
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the Spanish attacking from ships.
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Of course not. I mean, where would the Spanish
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build their ships on Lake Texcoco?
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First of all, the Spanish had sunk all their ships in the sea
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and had no ships there. And also if they had started
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building warships on Lake Texcoco, I'm pretty sure the
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Aztecs would have done something against that.
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But anyway, the Aztecs themselves, they did attack from
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the lake, and that's because they had canoes.
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And from those canoes they fired hundreds of volleys of arrows on
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the fleeing Spanish. Hundreds of Spanish people,
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thousands of their native allies, and countless horses
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were killed before they could flee to the mainland.
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Many also drowned after falling into the water, either because
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of their heavy armor or because of the weight of the gold they
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greedily tried to carry with them.
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The 440 survivors and their 23 horses were wounded, exhausted,
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and they fled to Texacola, pursued by the Aztecs all along
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the way. Nearly all the Texacallons died
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that night. The Spanish had lost their
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cannons and nearly all the gold they had tried to steal, and as
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the tradition demanded, the Aztecs sacrificed every prisoner
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they captured to their gods. And that, my friends, is the
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true story of La Noche Trista, at least as historians have
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reconstructed it. Today, the beautiful Lake
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Texkoku and its surrounding landscape I described you
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earlier actually no longer exists in their form of glory.
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The lake was gradually drained by the Spanish over time.
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Today, only a few small bodies of water remain in the South of
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Mexico City to remind us of that past.
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Still, the story of Tenochtitlan is incredibly fascinating.
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The official coat of Arms of Mexico, adopted in 1822, even
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shows an eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a cactus.
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This refers to the founding myth of Tenochtitlan.
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Supposedly, Aztec priests had prophesied that the Aztec people
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would settle wherever they saw an eagle on a cactus fighting a
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snake. It's weirdly specific.
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I'm only assuming that somebody was kind of high when they saw
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that vision. But anyway, this is what they
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were looking out for. And well, Tenchitlan carries
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this legend in its name. It means City of Tanoch, named
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after the man who led the Aztecs to the place where Tanich Tiklan
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would be built. Because he was the one spotting
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an eagle fighting a snake while he was sitting on a cactus.
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And he was also the one becoming the first high priest and
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therefore the first ruler of the Aztecs.
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And I've got one more interesting story for you.
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The intro to this mission mentioned another omen, the 6th
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of the Aztecs omens in the Aztec mythology.
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This one involved the voice of a weeping woman who for days cried
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out in the night for her children, urging them to flee.
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And even today, we know of similar tales from Mexican
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folklore under the name La Yorona, the ghost of a weeping
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woman who is set to wander near bodies of water mourning the
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death of her children, whom she drowned in a fit of jealous rage
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after her husband was unfaithful.
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According to legend, anyone who hears her crying is cursed and
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doomed to suffer misfortune. And hey, do you remember back in
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the very first episode of this campaign when I told you to
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remember that the narrator was promoted to a Jaguar warrior?
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Well, now's the time I can finally explain why there is
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speculation that the Jaguar Warrior we play as at the
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beginning of this mission is actually none other than Kwak
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Temok himself, because he has unusually strong stats.
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But Kwak Temok also exists as a separate playable hero unit in
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the game, even though he does not appear in this campaign
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himself. He can only be found in the
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scenario editor, where he looks like an elite Eagle Warrior with
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the golden shimmer typical of hero units.
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And that's likely because his name can be translated as
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Falling Eagle. So it's not really clear if the
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Jaguar in this mission is actually Quack Timoc or not, but
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it would make a lot of sense. The only thing is against it is
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that Kwoktimo actually is a hero unit and it is not used in this
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campaign mission. So if you're wondering why that
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is the case, I can only say that I don't know.
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But I do have a theory. And yes, it's super speculative.
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The Hero unit wasn't added in the Conquerors at ON, but only
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15 years later with African kingdoms.
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That's why I believe the original plan may have been to
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replace the Jaguar Warrior at the start of the mission with
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Kwak Timoc. But since his name means Falling
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Eagle and the voice over interests were already recorded
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15 years ago, it wouldn't have made sense to to to exchange the
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unit. So instead the unit was simply
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placed into the editor so that the work didn't go entirely to
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waste. Of course, once again, this is
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pure speculation and I have one last Easter egg for you before
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we close out this episode. I have heard.
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Tales of an island in Lake Teshikoco that is covered with
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gold but is sacred to Tescat Lipoca, the Jaguar God to the
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north. Of the lake there is an island
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with gold guarded by Jaguars. Among them stands Orluth the
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Wolf. Why?
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I have no idea, but that's a question we've asked more than
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once during this campaign, so nothing surprises me anymore.
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La Noche Crista ended in a bloody night for the Spanish,
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who were driven out of Tenochtitlan and fled to their
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allies, all the while pursued by the Aztecs.
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And with Moktat Zuma gone, a new king was crowned.
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Well, there was another one in between, but we're not talking
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about him anymore. None other than our narrator
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Kwok Timok, which again, isn't entirely true, but yes.
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And with that, this mission ends.
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I hope you enjoyed this episode and I will see you again soon
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when it's time to chase down the fleeing Spaniards.