Cortés wrote back to the Spanish king that he encountered Tlaxcala as a place with no singular ruler, organized on principles similar to Italian city-states (Florence, Venice), yet this evidence has not been given prominence in mainstream historical narratives of the conquest.
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David WengrowEvidence Quote
“we've got the letters that Cortez himself wrote back to the king of Spain saying I found this place it's it's weird you know there's no King it's it's maybe a little bit like some of our Florentine or Venice you know it's run on some other principles”
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Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream— Novara MediaCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:30:32 PM
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