Conquest of the Incas

It is a lie that "400 Spanish soldiers subjugated the Mexican Empire of about 6 million inhabitants."

The Aztecs had a much smaller population, and the majority of those 6 million "inhabitants" sided with the Spanish because they were at permanent war with the Aztecs, who waged wars almost every day to capture victims for human sacrifices.

(2025) At the time (101 points, 117 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43478789