In many respects, The War of the Worlds is a tale told before. For instance, the Aztecs of Mexico first took Hernando Cortes and his men to be benevolent gods when the Spaniards arrived early in the sixteenth century. The Aztecs were puzzled by the Spaniards' mighty horses, which they had never seen before; but when they realized that the men of Cortes were not "gods" but instead conquerors, they fought and were slaughtered by weapons vastly superior to their own. Wells's tale of the tragedy wrought by.....
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