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The Aztecs had a prophecy about their god, a white man, who sailed across the sea and someday would return. When they saw Cortés, they thought he was this god come back to them and let him and his people walk freely through the city and did not attack them until Cortés, his people and a group of Indians, whom the Aztecs had conquered and now taxed, started killing the Aztecs

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