Pizarro >> Alexander any day, sadly
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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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the “alexander had weak competition” was more to point you to further reading - ppl in antiquity who knew their shit thought roman generals and institutions could crush Alexander, but Alexander was more original
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Possibly yes - I think that was the heart of the ancient debate tho (whether ppl who studied Alexander had surpassed him, or only a pale imitation)
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