Initial forces to besiege Tenochtitlan
Tlacopan - Pedro de Alvarado
30 horses, 18 crossbowmen and gunsmiths, 150 pawns of sword and round, 25,000 Tlaxcalans.
Iztapalapa - Gonzalo de Sandoval
24 horses, 4 gunsmiths, 13 crossbowmen, 150 pawns of sword and round, 30,000 allies of Huejotzingo, Cholula and Chalco.
Why is the idea that a few hundred spanish conruered the new world even tought in school? when preatty much the army was indigenous.
>>2989565
It's all about making white people guilty.
>>2989565
>Why is the idea that a few hundred spanish conruered the new world even tought in school?
The few hundred Spanish were the ones who got everything together, made the big decisions etc. Yes, the natives were already there, but all it took was a few hundred spanish added to a situation where they were statistically irrelevant to change the future of the whole region.
Well like >>2989672 says they were the ones who got the ball rolling and at the end of the war they came out as new rulers rather than their allies.
In a military perspective the Spanish were dis proportionally effective but I am not sure if they would have stood a chance without native support.
>>2989565
Because a few hundred Spanish conquered the new world. They played the pivotal role in defeating the Aztecs and they clearly came out on top in the end.
>>2989565
>topple local bully empire with a few hundred men
>plunder entire continent
>create a new race you raped the locals so hard
I wonder.
>>2989733
Right. I believe the most one-sided battle in recorded history took place when a few ranks of Spaniards killed something like seven thousand Aztec warriors, with the only Spanish loss being a wound to the hand of the Spanish commander.
>>2990057
Obviously they could had never conquer the incas if it weren't for the civil war and the smallpox.