Message from @j j

Discord ID: 668336526832435200


2020-01-19 06:03:34 UTC  

rode by men that look nnothing like the men you see today

2020-01-19 06:03:44 UTC  

with different features and everything

2020-01-19 06:03:48 UTC  

speaking a different language

2020-01-19 06:03:55 UTC  

carrying diseases youve never faced

2020-01-19 06:04:26 UTC  

Still takes mad leadership to consolidate that advantage when you're outnumbered dozens to one

2020-01-19 06:05:00 UTC  

??

2020-01-19 06:05:04 UTC  

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.

2020-01-19 06:05:30 UTC  

yeah no

2020-01-19 06:06:09 UTC  

one second

2020-01-19 06:06:25 UTC  

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.

2020-01-19 06:07:09 UTC  

Then when he makes it to Tenochitlan, he gets the balls to arrest Montezuma himself.

2020-01-19 06:07:53 UTC  

thats not what happened-

2020-01-19 06:08:06 UTC  

number one it wasnt just him and a few thousand men

2020-01-19 06:08:26 UTC  

he made allies with most of the tribes he encountered and teamed up with them to fight other tribes

2020-01-19 06:08:49 UTC  

then he was INVITED to the palace in tenochitlan for a dinner

2020-01-19 06:09:15 UTC  

and decided to betray the king and hold him hostage

2020-01-19 06:09:16 UTC  

It was just him and a few thousand men

2020-01-19 06:09:19 UTC  

nothing heroic about that

2020-01-19 06:09:40 UTC  

yes him and a few thousand men

2020-01-19 06:10:36 UTC  

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.

2020-01-19 06:10:45 UTC  

then after taking the capital

2020-01-19 06:10:51 UTC  

he ran away from the city

2020-01-19 06:10:55 UTC  

because the spanish were coming

2020-01-19 06:11:01 UTC  

to arrest him

2020-01-19 06:11:18 UTC  

ah right, I messed the timeline there

2020-01-19 06:11:19 UTC  

did i mention that there was already a rebellion in Tenochitlan

2020-01-19 06:11:30 UTC  

which he just joined

2020-01-19 06:11:31 UTC  

..

2020-01-19 06:12:00 UTC  

Montezuma was killed DURING this rebellion while cortes was fighting against his own country

2020-01-19 06:12:24 UTC  

then the Aztecs eventually drove the Spanish & cortes from the city

2020-01-19 06:12:43 UTC  

until two years later they died of disease

2020-01-19 06:13:04 UTC  

and most fled to move to other parts of mexico

2020-01-19 06:13:13 UTC  

then cortes came BACK to this weakened city

2020-01-19 06:13:16 UTC  

and took it over

2020-01-19 06:20:31 UTC  

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.

2020-01-19 06:22:58 UTC  

literally most of the worlds leaders

2020-01-19 06:23:02 UTC  

could have done that

2020-01-19 06:23:50 UTC  

nah

2020-01-19 18:11:29 UTC  

These are the English editions of *Mein Kampf* I own: Dugsdale, Shaw, Reynal and Hitchcock, Stalag, Ford. Which one should I read and why?

2020-01-19 20:05:40 UTC  

Ford, then throw it in the trash.

2020-01-20 03:00:28 UTC  

I found a cool fact about the africans