How Tlaxcalan Warriors — Not Cortés's 600 Men — Brought Down the Aztec Empire

How Tlaxcalan Warriors — Not Cortés's 600 Men — Brought Down the Aztec Empire

The fall of the Aztec Empire is usually credited to Spanish steel and smallpox, but the decisive factor was a massive Tlaxcalan-led coalition whose hatred of Aztec rule predated Cortés by generations. Without that alliance — and one fateful choice after La Noche Triste — the conquest dies in 1520. The post How Tlaxcalan Warriors — Not Cortés’s 600 Men — Brought Down the Aztec Empire appeared first on History Collection.