Originally Posted by Bopa the Magyar
Mate the Mayays around the Yucatan peninsula fought very successful battles against the spanish in the 16 the and 17th centuries. They were the first to realise the strenght in the spanish cavalry and would use terrain, forest and ambush to achieve victories. The lasy Maya stronghold did fall to the late 18th century, 1761 and tribal warriors revolted long into the 19th century.
The death total of the indians in Central America was well into the millions. Although estimates say between 5-15 million the number may have been even bigger. Some say more than 20 million
Although the spanish advantage were in armour, tactics, the horse and gunpowder don't think that 600 men conquered Mexico. There were thousands of native warriors involved on the spanish side in the final siege of technochitilan around 70 thousand and whose barbarity in the final siege was arguebaly worse than anything the spanish had did before that point.
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