tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426443500694003777.post8048188703674925987..comments2023-07-30T04:31:36.573-07:00Comments on MARCH of HISTORY by Richard Wall: Culture of the Mexica-AztecsUshistoryprofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962378693875988341noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426443500694003777.post-42609978831478899912012-03-21T02:04:01.969-07:002012-03-21T02:04:01.969-07:00I'd like to point out that the Maquahuitl was ...I'd like to point out that the Maquahuitl was in fact one of the more fearsome weapons wielded by the Aztec army. One particular account by a mounted Spanish soldier, spoke of this weapon being brought down upon their horse's neck, and cleaved it entirely from it's body, hanging by only a piece of skin. <br />It is also incorrect that all Spanish soldiers had steel armour, as this piece of equipment was expensive and entirely unnecessary for foot soldiers. Here is a good comparison between equipment of a Spanish footsoldiers and an Aztec Eagle Knight; http://lajhsslab.com/latin2/images/conquis.jpg <br />In fact, the Aztec Atl-atl has been recorded as penetrating steel armour and passing entirely through a soldiers body, at a range in excess of 100 yards. <br />Perhaps the real reason the Spanish were so successful, does not in fact lie with their technology, but the numbers of native allies they made, such as the estimated 80,000-200,000 Tlaxcalan warriors who were present at the Fall of Tenochtitlan. The Aztec defense had an estimated 300,000 (including war canoes to defend the causeways)Owenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07794373173634477922noreply@blogger.com