Original sentence: As well as supporting this view, Timothy Taylor goes further by questioning whether Cortez actually "won" in his conflict with the Aztecs in the first place.He says that this is a eurocentric analysis, because the Aztecs may have considered their "fate and chances of eternal salvation" as more promising than the conquistadors'.He writes that while the book sees environmental adaption and resource-base expansion as self-evidently good, the Maya saw the location of cities close to subterranean caverns as self-evidently good, whatever the ecological cost.See similar views from anthropologists at: Edge.Taylor accuses Diamond of assuming that Cortez was the victor because the European culture supplanted the Aztec.org discourse