In the case of what is now Mexico and central America, they took advantage of tensions between the urbanized altepetl city states. Classic divide and conquer.
North/South America were hardly populated by more than a few nomadic tribes. The Andeans were in the middle of a bloody civil war, which the Spanish also took advantage of in order to establish themselves there.
Actually, people were already beginning to talk about that stuff about half a century after the conquest, though it is true that none of the people who were actually present during the conquest ever made mention of it.
Although the myth is mostly a weird power fantasy these days, it seems that kind of legend probably originated from friars mixing up a bunch of local legends with christianity and Europe, to create a deeper connection between the old world and the new as well as christianity and the new converts, who up until that point, had absolutely nothing to do with their new religion. The native nobility themselves didn't really mind it, for it made them seem somewhat more human and less foreign in the eyes of the spanish and it made the conquest seem like something completely out of their control rather than the secular result of not being able to defend their sovereignity. By the early 1600s for example, what remained of the Inca nobility were already proudly talking about how they were descendants of Noah just like the spaniards were, and how they used to worship the christian God in the beginning.
iirc the only mention of Aztecs believing the Spaniards were divine was the fact that they had never seen a horse before, and so they saw rider and steed as one being.
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The funny thing about that claim is that iirc, it isn't even a fact, but just a random conquistador speculating on what he THOUGHT the natives were thinking, so unless the guy was capable of reading minds it's not really a reliable claim. It also weren't Aztecs they were fighting against in that battle but a minor city-state from the gulf coast.
As far as i know, mesoamericans just compared horses to weird malformed deer.
Mostly because of the shock factor of seeing a different race. The native kings trusted the Spanish and let them into their inner circle and got ass blasted. They never saw a white person before and thought they were some kind of God
They didn't actually breed them that much, injuns were the majority in places like Peru and Mexico up until after independence, when the new elites of independent latin america began to promote mestizo hispanic culture over all the others
best part is that the conquistadors were almost all from andalucia, so extremely high chance that their parents and grandparents were fighting in the name of islam lmao
conversos were only counted among those who were explicitly muslim even after the reconquista of their land
plenty of people switched over before the edicts went out to recognize specific people as conversos
Made use of the natives hatred for each other.
This simple divide and conquer just like Caesar did in gaul
In the case of what is now Mexico and central America, they took advantage of tensions between the urbanized altepetl city states. Classic divide and conquer.
North/South America were hardly populated by more than a few nomadic tribes. The Andeans were in the middle of a bloody civil war, which the Spanish also took advantage of in order to establish themselves there.
Malinche is an important figure in the conquest of Mexico and I'm tired of pretending she's not.
The Spaniards were such a superior form of life compared to proto-spics that they thought Spaniards were actual livings gods
I wouldn't say that but they weren't as naive
Literally 0 sauce on this except from Friars centuries after the conquest.
Actually, people were already beginning to talk about that stuff about half a century after the conquest, though it is true that none of the people who were actually present during the conquest ever made mention of it.
Although the myth is mostly a weird power fantasy these days, it seems that kind of legend probably originated from friars mixing up a bunch of local legends with christianity and Europe, to create a deeper connection between the old world and the new as well as christianity and the new converts, who up until that point, had absolutely nothing to do with their new religion. The native nobility themselves didn't really mind it, for it made them seem somewhat more human and less foreign in the eyes of the spanish and it made the conquest seem like something completely out of their control rather than the secular result of not being able to defend their sovereignity. By the early 1600s for example, what remained of the Inca nobility were already proudly talking about how they were descendants of Noah just like the spaniards were, and how they used to worship the christian God in the beginning.
iirc the only mention of Aztecs believing the Spaniards were divine was the fact that they had never seen a horse before, and so they saw rider and steed as one being.
The funny thing about that claim is that iirc, it isn't even a fact, but just a random conquistador speculating on what he THOUGHT the natives were thinking, so unless the guy was capable of reading minds it's not really a reliable claim. It also weren't Aztecs they were fighting against in that battle but a minor city-state from the gulf coast.
As far as i know, mesoamericans just compared horses to weird malformed deer.
Mostly because of the shock factor of seeing a different race. The native kings trusted the Spanish and let them into their inner circle and got ass blasted. They never saw a white person before and thought they were some kind of God
European disease, AKA the Spanish were dirty.
>White men show up in an area full of brown women
>Brown women immediately flock to the BWC
>their men are demoralized and easily conquered
Simple as.
They didn't actually breed them that much, injuns were the majority in places like Peru and Mexico up until after independence, when the new elites of independent latin america began to promote mestizo hispanic culture over all the others
They used the same tactics as their ancestors, jihad.
seething indio
your women can't get enough European wiener
best part is that the conquistadors were almost all from andalucia, so extremely high chance that their parents and grandparents were fighting in the name of islam lmao
iirc they didn't let conversos go to the new world for fear that they'd revert to Islam if they were further from Spanish authority
conversos were only counted among those who were explicitly muslim even after the reconquista of their land
plenty of people switched over before the edicts went out to recognize specific people as conversos
see
I am more white than you. blue eyes I have
compared to the Moors. the natives are easy.
I dunno they were conquered by the mudslimes for 700 years so maybe they learned something from that experience.
The were also brimming with diseases.