Because Christian missionaries destroyed Aztec written records, Jiang treats the conquest narrative as uncertain and likely distorted by surviving Spanish stories.
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Missionaries
Because Christian missionaries destroyed Aztec written records, Jiang treats the conquest narrative as uncertain and likely distorted by surviving Spanish stories.
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"...Because the Aztecs were obviously destroyed by the Spanish. The Christian missionaries would come and destroy all written records of the Aztecs, and all..."
"...court and among leading notables. They may have combined in their missionary efforts theological arguments and messianic prophecies with a shrewd assignment of the..."
"...So again, Paul's amazing because he'll go on three different voyages, missionary journeys around the Roman Empire in order to spread the gospel of..."
"...burn in hell, okay? So in other words, Christianity is a missionary religion in which if you're a Christian, not only do you must..."
"...Okay, so remember, you have the Egyptian priests, you have the missionaries, you have the nomads, you have the hill people, okay? So Egyptian..."
"...saying, you French people. Okay? So he's talking about the French missionary. You French people love only your own children. But we all love..."
"...already after his third attempt uh he runs into a christian missionary who gives him a pamphlet and he just peruses that pamphlet and..."
"...was the one who institutionalized Buddhism as state religion who sponsored missionary projects to China to Greece to Egypt. Okay? So these rulers don't..."
"...sense to you guys? Okay? So, the story is this Christian missionary, he goes into a village and he finds people just sleeping with..."
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