IDoPokeSmot t1_j9hs2kq wrote on February 22, 2023 at 1:43 AM

My grandma always said Cortez was a piece of shit, just saying. Man, I miss her.

BrokenEye3 t1_j9i6np3 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 3:33 AM

Yeah, I hear he was kind of a dick

freeeYou OP t1_j9ibtf5 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 4:16 AM

I hope ur gma is resting well. Look up La Malinche. She was a huge contributing factor to his conquest schematics.

It’s crazy to think what the world would look like if they did form the alliance. Would Latin American countries be speaking Portuguese? French? English?

TheCloudFestival t1_j9koc6i wrote on February 22, 2023 at 6:02 PM

All of the Aztecs neighbours hated the Aztecs for very good reasons.

They'd never form an alliance, and the Aztecs only proposed alliances when they were personally endangered but otherwise spent their whole existence beating and murdering the ever-living crap out of their neighbours.

TheCloudFestival t1_j9ko36i wrote on February 22, 2023 at 6:00 PM

Good. I mean, yeah the Conquistadors were bloodthirsty bastards, but one of the reasons they went so ham on Central America was that when they landed they saw what cruel, barbaric, and bloodthirsty people the Aztecs were and thought 'Well, when in Rome!'

The Aztecs, according to every account we have of them, even those written by themselves, show them to be one of the most gleefully and spitefully cruel and barbarous civilisations to have ever existed on Earth.

ElfMage83 t1_j9yrcn7 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 3:40 PM

>Tarascan Empire

I read this first as "Trashcan Empire".

TIL an indigenous empire called the Purépechas (Tarascan Empire) denied an alliance request from their rivals, the Aztecs, when Hernan Cortez first arrived in present-day Mexico City.

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