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To: MattinNJ

Cortez - Mexico - Aztecs. Pizarro - Peru - Incas.

But in both cases the Spanish took advantage of bitter divisions among the natives to make their conquest, helped greatly by massive epidemics that disorganized the native empires.

Even with their stone age tech, it is highly unlikely the Spaniards could have conquered either Mexico or Peru if these empires had been united and healthy.


43 posted on 11/02/2011 9:34:21 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Point not addressed. Some modern flues are descended from the flue virus of 1918. There is also the bubonic plague http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2792352/posts and any number of bioweapon possibilities.

How ruthless a campaign do we want?


55 posted on 11/02/2011 9:58:21 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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