The Fall of the Aztec Empire
Dan Snow's History Hit
00:00
The Aztec Empire and the Conflictcalons
The spaniards are aware of how much they are being manipulated by not just local indigenous leaders, but by the aztecs themselves. They see that as simply part of their brilliant strategy of finding the enemies of the aztec and convincing them to ally with the spaniards. But it's the other way round. The aztecs manipulate them. There's a series of brutal battles, and spaniards lose a lot of men. To wipe them out would have cost us an enormous number of men. So clash collins say, if we make these guys our allies, we can do some s here. It's all this kind of wishful thinking in ther i mean,
Play episode from 20:09
Transcript
