Si Sheppard 谈几百名西班牙士兵如何颠覆阿兹特克与印加两大帝国
军事历史学家 Si Sheppard 在 Dwarkesh Patel 播客中讲述:Hernan Cortés 率数百名征服者在 2 年半内征服了 600 万人口的阿兹特克帝国,约十年后 Francisco Pizarro 又以同样方式征服了约 1000 万人口的印加帝国。两人常在 100 倍甚至 1000 倍兵力劣势下取胜,有时零伤亡,且军队中 99% 是被其征服的原住民。节目还讨论了征服者的军事优势、外交手段以及原住民为何未能更好适应欧洲战法。
panish finish him off, because he’s no longer of any use to them. Now Cortés is trapped in Tenochtitlan. He determines to break out, and that is, as you say, La Noche Triste, the Tragic Night, because so many of his men are left behind. They’re either killed as they try to escape the city across the causeways or forced to retreat back to the palaces, where they’re taken alive and sacrificed subsequently. Cortés gets away with a minority of the troops still at his disposal and makes it back to Tl
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