Mexica accounts boast that over four days , 80 , 000 Huaxteca men , women and children were killed to celebrate the opening of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan .
The Huaxteca were no more , through Clendinnen cautioned that 20 , 000 killed is more a realistic number .
Mexica accounts boast that over four days , 80 , 000 Huaxteca men , women and children were killed to celebrate the opening of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan and the Huaxteca were no more , through Clendinnen cautioned that 20 , 000 killed is more a realistic number .