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rode by men that look nnothing like the men you see today
with different features and everything
speaking a different language
carrying diseases youve never faced
Still takes mad leadership to consolidate that advantage when you're outnumbered dozens to one
??
Cortes once had to face 40,000 taxcalans one day, a night raid of them with 10,000 next, then 100,000 the next day.
yeah no
one second
Then halfway to the capital the governor of Cuba had sent soldiers to arrest him. Cortes risked his entire expedition sending men back to intercept them, which they did brilliantly, capturing all the officers and adding the rest to their ranks.
Then when he makes it to Tenochitlan, he gets the balls to arrest Montezuma himself.
thats not what happened-
number one it wasnt just him and a few thousand men
he made allies with most of the tribes he encountered and teamed up with them to fight other tribes
then he was INVITED to the palace in tenochitlan for a dinner
and decided to betray the king and hold him hostage
It was just him and a few thousand men
nothing heroic about that
yes him and a few thousand men
But you're making my point for me. He managed to make alliances on the spot to his advantage. Every obstacle Cortes faced, he handled deftly.
he ran away from the city
because the spanish were coming
to arrest him
ah right, I messed the timeline there
did i mention that there was already a rebellion in Tenochitlan
which he just joined
..
Montezuma was killed DURING this rebellion while cortes was fighting against his own country
then the Aztecs eventually drove the Spanish & cortes from the city
until two years later they died of disease
and most fled to move to other parts of mexico
then cortes came BACK to this weakened city
and took it over
The fact he was alive after all that keeps reinforcing my point. There's maybe 10 men in history that could have negotiated it as well as he did.
literally most of the worlds leaders
could have done that
nah
These are the English editions of *Mein Kampf* I own: Dugsdale, Shaw, Reynal and Hitchcock, Stalag, Ford. Which one should I read and why?
Ford, then throw it in the trash.
I found a cool fact about the africans