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A sappy club rolled in volcanic glass. The force of a club combined with the flesh ripping and maiming properties that no other enemy brought to bear. The Aztecs were short changed by tactics and biological warfare only.

If the aztec civilization had developed in the old world, our calendars would be round to this day.

No. They wouldn't. The aztec may have been good at war but that was all they were good at. They sucked when it came to management and diplomacy. Basically all the other tribes stayed in line out of fear of being sacrificed but when they might be sacrificed anyways they were all too eager to revolt. Cortez was the catalyst but he wasn't what defeated them. No doubt both he and the smallpox didn't help but the thing that defeated the Aztec was the Aztec. They were terrible emperors with no capability to rule who kept order through violence. Their fate wasn't just inevitable but entirely predictable. The only reason it didn't come sooner was the lack of a rival power to rally the tribes but, with how they were managing it, it's very unlikely that they would have lasted much longer.

The Old World sort of saw something similar in the Mongols. They were powerful when it came to the conquests but once it came time to actually rule their land they quickly crumbled because being able to fight and being able to lead are not the same thing in the slightest.

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