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Mesoamerican Tlatoanis often had many concubines of varying genders in addition to their wife, and having over 100 children from these concubines were not unheard of. Why did tlatoanis have so many children and did this pose problems politically as rulers of their country?

by /u/Chicano_Ducky in /r/AskHistorians

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