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How did the Spanish manage to successfully establish control over Mexico in the immediate aftermath of the conquest of Tenochtitlan if the Tlaxcalans saw the Spanish as auxiliaries in their own war against the Aztecs and had no reason not to see their newly conquered land as rightfully their own?

by /u/Xxxn00bpwnR69xxX in /r/AskHistorians

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