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You can see two Mexica/Aztec scribes creating pictographic depictions of the Spaniards, horses, & their technology. This is historically accurate. We know Montezuma tasked his scribes with collecting knowledge on the Spaniards, but odds are these pages would have been painted.

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Codex Zouche-Nuttall: A Rare, Accordion-Folded Pre-Columbian Manuscript, finished around 1556. “Considered to be of pre-Hispanic origin, since it preserves a strong indigenous tradition in its pictographic techniques…” https://t.co/vQ9n1M9AAg via

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