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There is of course the theory that the reason the Spaniards found it so easy to whoop dat Aztec was because of the hostility caused by so much human sacrifice.
by meatysnapper 11y ago
There is of course the theory that the reason the Spaniards found it so easy to whoop dat Aztec was because of the hostility caused by so much human sacrifice.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> There is of course the theory that the reason the Spaniards found it so easy to whoop dat Aztec was because of the hostility caused by so much human sacrifice. The Aztecs weren't unique in the practice of human sacrifice. It seems a lot more likely that resent of the Aztec Empire by its peripheries in general was the reason than human sacrifice specifically, the former exacerbated by general discontent resulting from the wave of disease the region was facing -- as a result of European contact with the Caribbean islands and trade between the islands and the mainland.
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- InclinedPlane 11y agoSort of. The Spaniards didn't "whoop" the Aztecs. They allied themselves with nearly a fifth of a million Tlaxcallan warriors.
- oh_sigh 11y agoIt also helps that the aztecs didn't even have any kind of metal weapons, whereas the Spaniards had guns, swords, armor, and horses.