[Verginius Rufus]

Cortez was able to defeat the Aztecs only with the help of the other ethnic groups in central Mexico who hated the Aztecs. They may not have been very happy with Spanish rule but at least the Spanish weren’t taking their people for human sacrifices.

[pburgh01]

That and the influenza bug probably put 80% of indigenous people on their backs, with 1/2 of those dying. That probably did it. Like the Dinosaurs and the Asteroid, it was a fairly punctuated extinction event.

Too sick, too depraved, too hated, and too primitive to last. Like an impressive 52-story wood building standing up to a JDAM.

[Texan5]

True-but the Spanish brought the Inquisition over to deal with the Natives and all other “heretics” by torture and burning at the stake...

[BereanBrain]

Yeah, i read Cortez’s account. Don’t underestimate the Conquistador’s toughness though. They (100-200 men) had to fight their way OUT of the capital city - surrounded by tens of thousands of Aztec warriors.