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Getting to the bottom of the military

But just how diverse and inclusive were the Aztecs?

28 October 2017

9:00 AM

28 October 2017

9:00 AM

Oswald Spengler’s account in his The Decline of the West of the death of the Aztec empire is disturbing in the extreme. You will recall the story: A great civilisation, which in 1519 had reached its maximum extent and influence, and was far more highly developed than the Graeco-Roman civilisation at a similar stage, was wiped out three years later by a Spanish army consisting of a handful of men and a few cannon and handguns.

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