Btw, the ancient consensus was that Alexander wasn’t good, he just had weak competition
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200 men, dude... Pizarro was like Xenophon, Alexander, and Leonidas wrapped up into one
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That’s impressive too, Norman reconquista was très fort; but Pizarro was up against 50,000 in a strange, hostile land an ocean away from home. There’s no gold in Sicily
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The empire Pizarro built was on the geographic scale of Alexander’s (check dimensions of viceroyalty of Peru), vastly more profitable, lasted longer, and he did it with 100 infantry and 60 caballeros
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