The Aztec empire was hegemonic in nature, meaning they didn't garrison troops in conquered regions. The whole empire was approximately 300,000 square kilometers, and contained 38 tributary provinces which spoke at least 23 different languages between them.
Warfare at that time relied heavily upon levied troops, and battles were often fought between hundreds of thousands of soldiers, with the Aztecs raising an army of 400,000 for the conquest of Tototepec.
Their logistical ingenuity was unmatched throughout the americas, and their violent zealotry led them to become the dominant polity in Mesoamerica.
Aztecs were the tribe of issachar of Israel and the Bible is for us BLACKS psalms 71:23
Caleb Campbell
Mexicans and blacks are brothers as we are both of ISRAEL we are God's chosen native American to are tribe of Israel but blacks are Judah and the devil cannot read the Bible!
Hudson Jones
> army of 400.000 that number seems impossible source?
Tyler Garcia
well, they managed to gather a similar number in Tenochtitlan alone
Dominic Price
Non impossible in Europe. Thing is Aztecs have superior agriculture and population density and food production were much better than in Europe. How then European could conquer this? Diseases who not only wipe most of the population and destroy whole societies but also in early phase destroy command chain and cause dynasty crises.
David Sanchez
It really isn't. Tenochtitlan was a very big city on a world scale even, and there were smaller cities packed in the Valley of Mexico. It was one of the most densely populated regions in the world at the time. I think I read estimates between 25-10 million.
Thomas Nelson
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Ross Hassig argues this point in his book Aztec Warfare. Population was about 1 to 2 million in the basin of Mexico. They also diverted drafted soldiers from neighboring tributary provinces along their march.
A more commonly cited example is the conquest of Coixtlahuacan where the army was 200,000 strong. The number of porters for carrying materiel is estimated at about 50 percent of the size of the army.
So total, 400,000 soldiers and 200,000 porters were mobilized for the conquest of Tototepec and 200,000 soldiers and 100,000 porters for Coixtlahuacan.
Ryan Gomez
Can anybody suggest any books about Aztec or Mesoamerican philosophy? want to know about how they viewed the world.
Aiden Mitchell
>battles were often fought between hundreds of thousands of soldiers, with the Aztecs raising an army of 400,000 for the conquest of Tototepec Yeah, bullshit.
Tenochtitlan was indeed one of the largest cities in the world in the 14th-15th century, and they fielded massive numbers of troops, but not that massive. Single BATTLES between hundreds of thousands of warriors? That's ridiculous. They never sacrificed 20,000 victims in a single week or whatever-the-fuck people claim, either, although they sure said they did. They inflated their numbers, and the Spanish inflated their numbers, same as Herodotus etc consistently overestimated how large the Persian military was. Even eyewitness accounts can be very unreliable sometimes -- actually, especially eyewitness accounts.
