Typhoid Wookie

A lycanthropic wookie with mean halitosis. Out and proud trans-customer of size. I fly for free. Preferred pronouns: Fat/Slob.

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@LondonChatApp @Clint_Davey1 There was a Moor with the Narvaez expedition to Florida/Texas. He ended up being enslaved with Cabeza de Vaca. The small pox epidemic of 1521 came from a slave, but I don't remember if it was a Moor or African. Enslaved Moors and Africans were common in the conquests.

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@LondonChatApp @Clint_Davey1 Grijalva had not returned from Spain with a license, when Cortes usurped the governor's conquest and illegally set off to conquer Old Mexico.

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@LondonChatApp @Clint_Davey1 Nah, mate. That's not how it went down. Cordoba went to the Yucatan in 1517, only to get killed. In 1518, Grijalva explored the coast of the Yucatan and old Mexico. He heard tell of a great inland empire. He was then sent to Spain by Governor Velasquez to procure a license.

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@DLanierShook @Clint_Davey1 Diego de Ordaz was later granted a license to conquer the lower Amazon, but somehow couldn't find it, so he set out to conquer the Orinoco. I believe he was the first conquistador to hear of El Dourado.

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@DLanierShook @Jam81443 @Clint_Davey1 A conquistadors requested the Crown ban lawyers from coming to the New World. Cortes was educated at Salamanca, but he didn't finish, I think. When he returned to Spain, he was treated with contempt. He offered to lead an assault on a Moorish fortress and was laughed at.

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@Jam81443 @Clint_Davey1 The laws of Spain. A conquest required a license from the Crown. Thw license was required to make sure the Crown got a cut of the loot. Cortes usurped the conquest of New Spain from the governor of Cuba, Diego de Velasquez.

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@gracemonkey1971 @ianmiles Given, it was a close run thing, but the Mexica were reduced to unleashing owl warriors and using tricks to make corpses walk, expecting the Spanish to run away while their city was slowly demolished. Then small pox hit, and it was over.

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@gracemonkey1971 @ianmiles Except every honest historian thinks just that. Once the Spanish won control of the lake and captured the city's causeways, the Mexica were trapped fighting in streets were their numbers didn't matter. When the other city states on the lake didn't act, the Mexica were doomed.

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@ianmiles The New World armies were very hierarchical. Once Pizarro had captured Attahialpa, the system froze. It was a tactic the conquistadors used over and over again. Cortes did much the same with Montezuma. Balboa did it in Panama.

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@gracemonkey1971 @ianmiles The sources are less clear in Peru, but the few mentions of indigenous allies appear to have logistical roles. Gonzalo Pizarro brought a couple thousand Andeans with him to look for the "Land of Cinnamon," and they carried stuff.

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@gracemonkey1971 @ianmiles Read carefully, the sources reveal the indigenous allies did very little fighting, at least in the siege of Tenochitlan. Their main contribution was logistics and tearing stuff down. Any time the Spaniards suffered a reverse, the Tlaxkalans ran away.

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@HistoryLegends_ Pizarro arrived in the new world c. 1509 when he was roughly 30. He went on to help Balboa conquer Panama and discover the Pacific. He betrayed Balboa to Pedrarias Davila when he was on the verge of the Peru conquest.

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@romanhelmetguy Notctrue. Pizarro was in his 30s when he conquered Panama, helped Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean, and ultimately betrayed him to Pedrarias Davila.

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@9mmsmg Why would you get out of your car when you saw them? I'd drive away, even if it was at a police station. There's no way that transaction was ever going to end well. The victim has the physique of a victim, it must be said, sadly.

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@9mmsmg There's something very Brazilian about that woman getting tossed off the bridge. I was Leblon or Ipanema, pretty upscale neighborhoods in Rio, and air-conditioner fell off the side of an apartment and killed someone. Stuff like that just happens there.

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@9mmsmg I lived in Brazil for c. 2 years. Brazilians don't see their country as dysfunctional, at least the middle class ones don't. They're annoyingly patriotic, believing they invented stuff like airplanes or flipping out when some obscure Brazilian sports team wins a championship.

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@SerafinaMarqus1 @OneArmedBoh The Spanish encountered the Maya in 1517. The conquest of the Yucatan took decades and was a close run affair. The collapse of the Classic Period Maya city states did not end the Mayan people, who were linguistically and culturally different from the Nauhtl speakers.

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@franrezzano @elaiwso @OneArmedBoh Read carefully, the accounts reveal the Tlakalans provided logistics. They were scared of the Mexica and often ran away. Montezuma told Cortes he could have conquered them at any time but preferred not to so they could fight "flower wars" and take captives for sacrifices.

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@JaxenYates @OneArmedBoh The Spaniards abandoned steel armor in the Yucatan, adopting instead the Mayan quilted armor, which worked better against arrows. The Spanish were light cavalry, coming out of the Reconquista with its sweeping raids. Like the Moors, they preferred to ride mares.