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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10/ several good comments herehttps://twitter.com/moheroy/status/1286704623244455936 …
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nice thread
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@ourfakehistory Do you have an episode on this yet? If not, sounds like it would make a good one! -
I did in Season 1. Also the ships were never literally burned, only "scuttled". All the good stuff was removed from the ships ahead of time.
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really fun long blog post about this saga:https://dormin.org/2020/06/25/polygamy-human-sacrifices-and-steel-why-the-aztecs-were-awesome/ …
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The conquest is one of the most exciting stories in human history, and the complexity of the Mexica’s system is what makes it so.
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