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0 pointspoisonarena4y ago0 comments

Who trained Cortes? The Spanish developed tactics for decades and decades, building knowledge from previous wars and conquests.

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wwtrv4y ago

Cortes was an opportunistic lawyer/notary he had no military experience before the conquest of Mexico and I’m not sure there is any evidence that he had any military education.

poisonarenaOP4y ago

Well he overthrew the Aztec Empire..

Also his dad was an infantry captain. And he seemed to be commanding his armies, and armies of allied tribes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Otumba

wwtrv4y ago

Yeah he turned out to be a fairly competent commander but it was main his diplomatic skill that allowed him to conquer Mexico. There is no way he would have won without the tens of thousands of native allies that fought alongside the Spanish.

shakow4y ago

It does not make any sense. To this measure, every last soldier in a European army until post-WWII era should be a highly trained veteran.

poisonarenaOP4y ago

I think you are missing the point entirely, I am saying that there is a thing called collective military knowledge, The Spanish had experience in fighting wars for many years. This knowledge of tactics and techniques is passed on through training.

shakow4y ago

And I'm saying that virtually every country on Earth has some military knowledge. You really think that France/the German principalities/England/the Ottoman Empire/the PL Commonwealth/the Kievan Rus'/... just forgot everything after a war, and that Spain, miraculously, was the only country to understand that experience is a thing?

And do you believe that the Southern American populations religiously waited for the White Man to bring them the concept of armed conflicts, and that they lived in perfect harmony until then, miraculously oblivious to the concept of conquest and imperialism?

poisonarenaOP4y ago

I think you may be putting words in my mouth and getting pretty worked up, because I didn't say what you are implying. I am just stating(for the third time now) that Spain was at the cutting edge in 15th century warfare. Regarding your last paragraph, which is on some other tangent, but since you brought it up, it is known that the Aztecs and Mexica had a very different view on the purpose of warfare.

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wwtrv4y ago

Cortes was an opportunistic lawyer/notary he had no military experience before the conquest of Mexico and I’m not sure there is any evidence that he had any military education.

poisonarenaOP4y ago

Well he overthrew the Aztec Empire..

Also his dad was an infantry captain. And he seemed to be commanding his armies, and armies of allied tribes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Otumba

wwtrv4y ago

shakow4y ago

It does not make any sense. To this measure, every last soldier in a European army until post-WWII era should be a highly trained veteran.

poisonarenaOP4y ago

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