Ecumene Aztec – Official Announcement Trailer
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SlimeGooGoo
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diffusionx
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"withstand the assault" lmao, it was like 500 dudes, Aztecs got conquered because they brutally subjugated other tribes, which made them natural enemies, tribes that were all to happy to help the Spanish.
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Jack Videogames
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Maybe they will make a game about a brave wehrmatch soldier resisting the invasion of the Soviet Union in Berlin?
I mean both were bloodthirsty empires taken out by a larger, also shady empire and a coalition of the countries they fucked over...
I mean both were bloodthirsty empires taken out by a larger, also shady empire and a coalition of the countries they fucked over...
StreetsofBeige
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Is this the real history? I dont know.
I thought all those aztecs and mayans etc.... got taken over by brute force of Europeans (endless ships of soldiers and colonists) and them bringing over their diseases wiping out tribes????
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Heimdall_Xtreme
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Rodolink
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it's more or less true in very casual and broad terms.
As narrated by Bernal Diaz del Castillo (a former conquistador soldier at the time).
They wanted to convince all to be under Spanish king and cover to the true religion. Eventually reaching Tenochtitlan, becoming "friends" with the tlatoani Moctezuma, but then some things happened, and Spaniards took home of the palace with Moctezuma as hostage, Aztecs didn't care and raised in arms. they have fierce battle thanks to the water bridges, canals etc that made escape harder, they supposedly escaped but was a close call. Then they gathered the "subjugated" towns around, few their army and returned to the city stronger and due to the better warfare technology of Spaniards there was no chance.
Natives had some very skilled people when battling, there's this famous anecdote of one of the people against aztecs that cut a horse's head with a maquahuitl. Also very good with lances, stone throwing and archery. but no steel and guns.
anyway, it wasn't as many think like a ruthless, bloody conquest like ghengis kan, and now it's a cultural merge, (hard merge)
Fuz
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They had firmer ass cheeks?haven't watched the trailer yet, I'm on mobile but just looking at the dude there he looks more like a Mayan than an Aztec
Kinda more complicated than that. But my knowledge of Aztec/Mayan/Incan empires stem from MesoAmerican/Pre-Columbian art rather than studying the history itself.
But I figure anyone actually interested can google or find books about it and read up on it themselves. It was pretty interesting when I was learning it, especially the mythological parts. I kinda zoned out trying to pronounce some of those names though.
Tams
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Ummm, yes. Many tribes hated the Aztecs (hmmm, I wonder why) and sided with the Spanish. It was these tribes that the Spanish first made contact with (not in some sort of alliance theng, just by chance and geography). And the Spanish firearms did make short work of the Aztecs. Plus the Aztecs underestimated the Spanish (it should be noted after, for the times, really rather congenial interactions at first). The Spanish were just a few hundred men, also suffering from disease. They were literally 'discovering' the 'New World', so no, reinforcements did not come and certainly not 'endlessly'.
Disease did cause of a lot of deaths, but hardly caused the empire to collapse.
Damn, has modern education really fucked up this badly?
PS Oh, and the Mayan civilization/empire had collapsed abouted 500 years before the Spanish turned up. Europeans at that time didn't even know that the Americas existed.
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