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How did the Spanish get the Aztecs to work in the mines?

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All pre-Columbian empires asked for taxes in both “money” and in labor: the Purepechas, Incas. Aztecs. Most of the city-state rulers did as well - as far north as current New Mexico and Arizona, as far south to the Muisca lands, and of course incl... read more

Just to add to Quora User‘s answer, Nahua (Aztec) communities and cities were devastated by epidemics after the conquistadores burned Tenochtitlan. As such, the Spanish needed laborers in order to extract precious metals that they craved. read more

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