1/ so this morning I was ruminating on Cortez and how he burned his ships behind him to motivate his men... and I was thinking about the complexity of building a ship (even 16th century ships were super high tech, and in an "I, Pencil" sense, no one person knew how to make one).
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6/ And, in fact, word of his shenanigans got back to Cuba, and the Spanish Governor of Cuba sent out a secondary expedition to go grab Cortez by the ear, and drag him back so that he could 'spain himself. Cortez, camped in what's now Mexico City, with the ruling family >
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7/ kept as sort of hostages / collaborators in a Vichy France kind of way. So Cortez learned that he was in trouble, and left the city in charge of his #2 while he headed out to intercept the backup expedition, to, I dunno, try to smooth stuff over? So what did #2 do ?
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@hradzka -explaining-hard-right-activists stuff here) What did Cortez's #2 do, while he was unsupervised for two weeks? YES, THAT'S RIGHT, s̶e̶t̶ ̶u̶p̶ ̶a̶ ̶g̶r̶o̶u̶p̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶D̶i̶s̶c̶o̶r̶d̶ murdered the entire royal family while they were feasting. YOLO !Show this thread -
9/ This worked ... poorly. The entire city which had already been dubious about the kinda-conquerers and their kinda-negotiated settlement realized that they were, in fact, conquers, and rose up. There was bloodshed. A wee bit.
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10/ several good comments herehttps://twitter.com/moheroy/status/1286704623244455936 …
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The one that I really struggle to wrap my head around is Pizarro. Take barely a company of men into the mountains of Peru, on the wrong side of South America for any support, and smash the Incan empire.
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He was not authorized to, but he dissolved his expedition at Vera Cruz & elected a town council, it was as head of the guard of Vera Cruz that he was authorized. Cortez was trained as a lawyer, his father was notary to court in Medellin, Es.
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He made every formal decision on the expedition with two witnesses and almost always in front of a notary. At one point he sent back to Cuba for more notaries.
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