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Julian Jaynes felt the Aztecs were so easily conquered by a small band of Spaniards because they had a bicameral mind, leaving them vulnerable to European behaviors they couldn't understand. Do modern historians consider this likely? What's the status of the broader bicameral mind hypothesis?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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