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Yeah, conquistadores such as Fernando Cortez didn't have any sort of overwhelming combat advantage against the Aztecs...
by Kaizyn 17y ago
Yeah, conquistadores such as Fernando Cortez didn't have any sort of overwhelming combat advantage against the Aztecs...
- eugenejen 17y agoYou are right. But I think the small pox brought by him helped a lot?
- yters 17y agoThat and the Indians gave his conquests a mythological spin, giving him a psychological advantage.
- HalcyonMuse 17y agoThe people of the Americas had a distinctly different ritual of warfare. Much of the advantage had to do (at least in the beginning) with the natives "honorably" waiting for their opponents to be ready, which for the Europeans involved setting up their cannons just right. It was one big culture-shock clusterf@$#.