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Were Stone Age Aztec weapons any match for conquistadors?
I remember reading claims that their stone club swords could decapitate horses, and their cotton armour could withstand blades.
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>>65218535
their obsidian blades were devastating but would shatter against steel. so they targeted the Spaniards' unarmored legs
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>>65218535
Obsidian is sharp as a motherfucker, and while it does shatter when hitting bone, I could definitely see a lucky swing hitting between the vertebrae taking off a horse's head
As for the armor, textile can definitely stop a slash, the Aztec design was effectively a gambeson
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>>65218535
The Aztec weren't stonage but they focused on gay weak luxury metals like gold and bronze due to ancient globohomo pochtec influence. Even the Maya were up to their duplicitous nature and often had them taxed into slavery or just killed.
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>>65218535
Got a name or a sauce for that dusky skinned indo?
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>>65218535
Overrated
>>65218557
Attractive
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>>65218535
The Conquistadors won by forming alliances with native tribes who hated the Aztecs. Most of the fighting were done by the natives vs natives. Also, the Conquistadors semi-inadvertantly spread smallpox to the natives, who without natural immunity, had 90% (NINETY PERCENT) fatality rate. The natives had their revenge by giving syphylis in return, which was the era's AIDS.
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historically the Aztecs sort of raised a slave revolt against the already crumbling aztec empire.
Contextually the aztecs were being attacked by giants, ghosts, lighting throwing wizards, thousands of them were getting sick and falling down dead, they had no idea how to kill the giant flying lighting throwing dog, arrows didn't really seem to work.
Tactically, the aztecs lacked anti cavalry weapons, and kind of metal armor, even if if were one group of spanish fighting another with native weapons, low poundage bows weren't going to work, a spear is not a pike, palisades will not stop an arquebus. nowhere to run, hide, can't win with a direct assault.
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>>65218672
she was in the Dr.Strange movie
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>>65218868
what's her OF?
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>>65218920
Banned from pretty much all social media these days.
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>>65218957
>awww sheeeit
>Leroy done gone over there to bonk the metal guy with smallpox
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>>65219110
Basically none of them had full armor, anon. Cortez was fielding an army of adventurers, not a force of hardened regular infantry.
Even then, leg armor wasn't very common among regular Infantry to begin with, a d any they had was likely discarded by anyone who wasn't mounted, because leg armor sucks when you're marching on a good day, a d would be murderously tiring to deal with in that environment. You'd need to substantially up your water intake just to keep pace, and it WILL tire you the fuck out, especially when you're, say, trying to get the fuck away from tenochitlan after shit went south.
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>>65219110
None of them wore full pl8. That would be a death sentence for Yuro in a foreign equatorial jungle. Plus, most Conquistadors were not rich, especially the rank and file. They were men who left the continent because they were willing to risk their unsatisfactory lives for a chance at gold and glory.
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If you want a good book about what the experience was like for the Spanish read "Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521".
The common narrative, espoused by poltards and the like, that the Spanish came in like gods and started destroying everyone with ease is far from the truth. They only got through the whole ordeal by the skin of their teeth, and had things gone slightly different, and had they been slightly less lucky, they would have all perished and we'd be living in an alternate timeline.
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>>65218557
Easily superior to
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>>65218535
no
>proof
they got rekt, pub stomped, and btfo'd