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I'm sorry but I'm pretty sure that's false on all counts.
The aztecs were very familiar with working as a unit towards a goal. Their style of warfare was focussed on taking captives to take back home as slaves, which was the primary means of social climbing for anyone who wasn't born noble. This required close cooperation of units of men working together with various weapons to take their opponents down alive.
The spanish regulars absolutely did fight in disciplined infantry units, but Cortez' expedition was not made up of regular soldiers, or even experienced mercenaries. They were mostly ordinary colonists hoping to get rich quick.
They also absolutely did not "frog stomp" the aztecs. It was an extremely costly war of attrition with heavy losses on both sides. Many spaniards were captured and sacrificed in the aztec style.
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@Eiregoat @SchizoCynic @matrix @caekislove The myth of technological superiority of Europeans against the natives is a joke. Took years for western expansion The Americas were conquered fair and square.
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Well in this particular case it was no joke. A small number of inexperienced spaniards were able to completely tip the scales of power against a huge (by american standards) empire.
It didn't help that their emperor was spineless, but it was an impressive feat nonetheless.
It's probably equivalent to a few hundred american farmers hopping on a boat to Zimbabwe and making it Rhodesia again.
I think you're right in terms of general manifest destiny though. Trade ensured the Indians were as well armed as any european settler.
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@UnityOstara @Eiregoat @matrix @caekislove The tech wasn't the issue it was just being less civilized and unable to work together properly. Same reason Hannibal never took Rome, not because he couldn't but because he couldn't depend on Carthage to reinforce him in time
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> it was just being less civilized and unable to work together properly.
Riddle me this, if they were just disorganised savages who couldn't work together, why did they have an empire the size of Spain? How did they build such a huge city?
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@SchizoCynic @Eiregoat @matrix @caekislove Mediterranean people are pretty much White, ask a jew.
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@cowanon @Eiregoat @matrix @caekislove @SchizoCynic I wish Moon Nazis was a thing. Meteorblitzkreig! Alas I live in the real world.
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Aliens. It was aliens.
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@cowanon @Eiregoat @matrix @caekislove @SchizoCynic Iron Sky had its moments, race mixing ruined it!
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@Eiregoat @SchizoCynic @matrix @caekislove Spanish Empire? It was a bunch of land grabs looking for gold. The Catholics did their thing. The majority of that gold ended up in Soviet hands after the fall of the Spanish Republican Government
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@Eiregoat @SchizoCynic @matrix @caekislove People who sacrificed kids and used beans for currency trying to tell me what to do is ignorant. Totally not Judeo-Christian.
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@Eiregoat @matrix @caekislove @UnityOstara Because it's not difficult to conquer primitives who are sparsly populated. With no knowledge of shield or line formations. The scythians ruled most of the stepp without even knowledge of roads or farming. The buildings architecture is clearly Mesopotamian-like so they built buildings like that as it was the basic first step style. As for empires without knowledge of drill you can look a everyone before Greece and Rome as they invented drill formations and line combat. That's how thermopylae happened. Spartans worked together in disciplined lines and the Persians did not. The romans used line formations and the celts didn't (Crassus doesn't count because he was retarded and Spartacus was gigachad) the only time line formations and disciplined troops lost was rare and due to incompetence higher up. Like Carrhae and teutoburg forest.