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Not to mention immunities to European diseases. R. Rowland

Bruce Thornton wrote:
> 
>  It always seems to be a shock to students to realize that
> >Cortes would have been a heartless corpse bouncing down the steps of
> >the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan if he had not had the good luck to
> >encounter people like the Tlaxcalans who had superb reasons for wanting
> >to destroy the Aztec Empire.
> 
> I hope you don't reduce the success of the Spaniards merely to the
> fortuitious presence of the disaffected Tlaxcalans. Don't you think that
> the uniquely Western intellectual dynamism-- the freedom to rely on
> individual initiative, to adapt quickly to rapidly changing circumstances,
> to improvise new solutions and tactics unforeseen in rigid, deterministic
> cosmologies, etc etc-- had a tad bit to do with it?
> 
> Bruce S Thornton
> 209-278-7037 (voice mail)
> 209-278-7878 (FAX)
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