Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan
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Dominic Gonzalez
Least it was before I fucked everything up
Evan Mitchell
>some wierd people arrived from overseas lets welcome them into the city
Julian Mitchell
I mean its not like they could stop them the second time anyways.
Xavier Lewis
Where did it all go? You expect me to believe that 400 Spanish soldiers with 1500s technology destroyed all of this?
Liam Foster
A bit more than that and quite a number of native allies.
That's not to say that the spaniards weren't a major part of the siege of tenochitlan, they were, but their native allies were also a massive help.
Josiah Rogers
Okay, let's say you kill all the Aztecs (even though Nahuatl today is spoken by 1.7 million people). Why and how were the buildings destroyed?
Hudson Parker
*record scratch*
Yup, that's me. Or at least, was.
Carter Powell
>Why and how were the buildings destroyed?
Cortes' strategy for taking the city was to launch daily expeditions into it from siege camps outside the city. He quickly realized that marching through narrow city streets didn't give his cavalry room to manuever, and allowed the aztec defenders to rush out of side streets and ambush his troops with missiles from rooftops. He had his troops start levelling buildings to give his cavalry and soldiers room to manuever.