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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

      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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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

      2/ and I started wondering "wait, he burned his ships, forcing himself onward...but what was the exit plan? How was he going to get back to Spain? Build a ship, from scratch, weave sales, twist rope, cast anchors, carve pulleys, make oakum and tar, make tools to chink joints...

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

      3/ no, this is flatly impossible. No one, even with 300 men, all of them experienced, could make a ship and get back to Spain. So I dove into El Wikipedia What I had not realized is that Cortez's expedian into what is now Mexico was not launched from Spain. IT WAS FROM CUBA

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

      4/ The Spanish had already colonized the Carribean and had been hanging out there for a QUARTER OF A CENTURY before the Cortez expedition. So this was not a 3,000 mile expedition. This was more like D-Day: hop off from England and cross a small pond >>>

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

      5/ with fellow country men, ships, and supplies just a few hundred miles away. HUH! I DID NOT KNOW THAT! So, the next thing I learned was that Cortez was NOT AUTHORIZED TO PULL THIS STUNT.

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

      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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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

      8/ (This is some @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 !

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

      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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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Roy

          10/ several good comments herehttps://twitter.com/moheroy/status/1286704623244455936 …

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          Roy @moheroy
          Replying to @MorlockP
          They built new ships at Acapulco and discovered California. Age of Discovery mariners knew how to build entire ships from scratch because they had to be able to repair everything. They saved the iro and bronze parts when he “burned” his ships. They built new ships on Lake Texcoco
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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Roy

          11/https://twitter.com/moheroy/status/1286705126070263809 …

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          Roy @moheroy
          Replying to @MorlockP
          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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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Roy

          12/https://twitter.com/moheroy/status/1286705363224604672 …

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          Roy @moheroy
          Replying to @moheroy @MorlockP
          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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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jul 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Roy

          13/https://twitter.com/moheroy/status/1286706706257412098 …

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          Roy @moheroy
          Replying to @MorlockP @hradzka
          I would recommend Conquest by Hugh Thomas, it does a nice job of showing how calculated Cortez was at every step and it has decent psychology of Moctezuma.
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        1. Franz Fakka‏ @FakkaFranz 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP @hradzka

          nice thread

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        2. Cristine Rice‏ @PstafarianPrice 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP @hradzka

          @ourfakehistory Do you have an episode on this yet? If not, sounds like it would make a good one!

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        3. Sebastian Major‏ @ourfakehistory 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @PstafarianPrice @MorlockP @hradzka

          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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        2.  🎀 sonya supposedly  🤖‏ @sonyasupposedly 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP @hradzka

          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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        3. Roy‏ @moheroy 24 Jul 2020
          Replying to @sonyasupposedly @MorlockP @hradzka

          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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        1. Nate Campbell‏ @N8istootall 24 Jul 2020
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