Quote Originally Posted by tls5669 View Post
Ive always wondered why? When the Spaniards Invaded S. America and Mexico, what if those civs were in the bronze or iron age? Even in N. America in the 15th century, they were still in the stone age, 4500 years or so after the Sumerians came out of the stone age.
But exceptional civilizations (tenochtitlan [Aztec capital] for example... the biggest city in the world with a population of 250'000, and with a fully operative aqueduct. If they had had somewhat less antiquated warfare tactics and if all the other towns and villages around them had not hated them so much… the Spaniards would have gotten their asses kicked. Iron weapons were important… but not the ONLY factor that caused the fall of the Aztec empire.