Dr. James Fitzsimmons

They figured, oh, these guys are beaten.

They run out of the city.

They chase them for a while.

And they're like, ah, they're probably going to die.

Because they think, oh, we've beaten them.

And unfortunately, disease by that point had hit the capital.

And between 1519 and 1521, you get like 50% of the population of the city gets decimated.

And if you kill 50% of the population of a city indiscriminately, some of them are going to be warriors, yes.

But some of them are going to be people that were taking care of water and food and sewage and all sorts of other things.

And so it compounds all these problems that they have.

And even then, the Aztecs in the capital city, even in 1521, when the Spanish finally do come over and take them out, they hold out for months in that city.

So there's some tough bastards like in that city, like really tough.

But the conquest, yeah, the conquest is basically, it's basically pitting indigenous peoples against other indigenous peoples.

That's what it is.

And it's like that just about everywhere with the Spanish land.

It's not like they have an overwhelming force or anything like that.

The Spanish basically just take them out piecemeal.

They don't even know what they're doing.

The Houstoners don't even know what they're doing at this point.

You know, there are points where, like, Cortez, for example, for the Aztecs, he has a bounty on his head from the governor in Cuba.