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The Aztecs had asked their host, the lord of Culhuacán, whether he would give his daughter as a bride for their chief. He agreed, believing she would be greatly honored as queen; however, to his horror they killed and flayed her as a sacrifice to their deity Xipe Totec.
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D.K. Publishing (The Little Book of History (DK Little Book of))
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Francisco Pizarro and Hernán Cortés, in the early sixteenth century, ravaged the Inca and Aztec. Queen Christina of Sweden seized a thousand paintings from Prague in 1648 and paid her generals in artwork. Napoleon stole to endow the Louvre, and Stalin to stock the Hermitage.
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Michael Finkel (The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession)