>> The Aztecs Empire fell to the sword, not to disease.) <<
An empire of millions fell to the sword of a few hundred men? If Cortez’s men had killed the numbers he was accused of by British black propaganda, they’d have spent their lives plunging their swords into new victims each second. The swords they fell to were largely their own, as they panicked that the plague which was consuming them was their own fear that Cortez was the return of Queztlcoatl, the god whose Toltec civilization they had destroyed.
Yes, that’s right, Diaz was there from beginning to end and did quite a bit of the killing himself. There were maybe 1 to 2,000 Spaniards in total at the peak but they were accompanied by tens of thousands of coastal tribe allies who were sick of Aztec arrogance and hegemony. Diaz notes on many occasions how bravely these allies fought. The number of Aztec warriors was great but not every single person in the empire was a warrior; they were an elite at the top of a subservient rural farmer population. So a population to Spanish soldier comparison (as seems to be alluded to in your British black propaganda reference) is invalid. The Quetzalcoatl myth may have helped get them into the island capital the first time but it certainly didn’t help them get out once the Aztecs turned on them nor did it help help them when they returned some months later, reinforced with more Spaniards and coastal tribe allies, to finish the job.
Disease had a role, as I acknowledged in my original posting. But the Spanish and their allies, together, took down the empire with the sword (steel and obsidian edged).