What made the west mexicans so much more violent and warlike than the Maya? Could the Aztecs have pulled off their planned invasion of the Yucatan, or do you think the Tarascan/Tlaxcalan alliance would still have been able to defeat them without the chaos caused by the spaniards?
>>18006408Mesoamericans thread are so boring
>>18006432Why are you here?
>>18006436I feel sorry for you. You and your threads barely get past 50 replies, I'm doing you a favor. Your bias in those threads is also very clear.>>18006432
>>18006439I have no idea what you're talking about schizo
The Maya were ridiculously violent you mong. They just had to fight their wars closer home
>>18006469yes but despite fighting closer to home their armies were much smaller relative to their populations, whereas groups like the aztecs were basically warrior cults where literally everyone was seen as an active soldier.
>>18006408The Maya weren't really any less warlike than other Mesoamericans. I'd say the cultural and political doninance of Central Mexico was a natural result of Teotihuacan's influence, which itself had its own set of factors behind, and the initially nomadic nature of the early Nahua immigrants, which led to them invading all over the Maya area and Central America.>Could the Aztecs have pulled off their planned invasion of the YucatanYeah, probably. The Yucatan Peninsula at the time of the Spanish conquest was largely divided between a bunch of mercantile chiefdoms, there wasn't really any powerful kingdom capable of opposing them. The Aztecs would probably have been able to exploit the Tutul Xiu-Cocom rivalry the same way the Spaniards did when they conquered the Yucatan, too.>or do you think the Tarascan/Tlaxcalan alliance would still have been able to defeat them without the chaos caused by the spaniards?I don't think there was ever an alliance between the Tarascans and the Tlaxcaltecs, they were located pretty far away from one another after all, they just happened to be fighting the same empire.And no, i don't think they would have been a factor in a conquest of the yucatan, nor could they (or at last not the Tlaxcaltecs) defeat the Aztecs. The Tlaxcaltecs were pretty much on the brink of defeat when the Spaniards showed up. They were politically and economically isolated, and their whole country was effectively under a big siege. The Tarascans likewise weren't as prosperous or dominant over the Aztecs as some people seem to assume, after all they were an empire on their own right. They had their own problems, and other enemies besides the Aztecs, they had even lost some considerable amount of territory on the Pacific coast and had been defeated in a failed conquest of Colima in the early 16th century.>>18006500The Maya also had militaries composed of commoner militias and professional warriors, it was just a general Mesoamerican thing.
