In the article Evidence Emerges that Conquistadors “Stayed for Dinner”, by David DeMar, I learned that several hundred conquistadors were captured in the early sixteenth century by Aztecs. They had the assumption that they were “staying for dinner”. Or so they thought. At the Zultepec-Tecoaque dig site in Tlaxcala, once home to the Acolhuas. Herman Cortéz who arrived in 1519 with a mixed group of Spanish soldiers and conquistadors as well as allies from the Maya to other indigenous populations. Cortéz and his soldiers, about 550 of them, were on thir way to Tenochtitlan to help in the destroying of a rebellion in the region. While Cortéz went ahead some men and livestock stayed behind and got captured. They were kept by the Acolhuas for
