One of the most well known conquests of the all time is the conquest of Mexico by the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes. This is a puzzling conquest to historians because while the Spanish had the advantage of technology, it shouldn’t matter when compared to the Aztec’s superior numbers and home advantage. These factors should have allowed the Aztecs to surround Cortes’s small force and soundly defeat them yet we know that this isn’t what happened. The Spanish were the ones that actually prevailed and ended up the conquerors instead of the seemingly secure Aztec Empire. Since then we have been able to analyze the situation that allowed one man to lead a small expeditionary force on a campaign that would eventually topple an empire. As a result of this new perspective on the situation and information that is available, both native and Spanish, historians have been able to come up with several new definitive theories and ideals as to how Cortes was able to conquer the Aztecs and......
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