Mexica/Aztec Weapons (Discovery Channel)

This is a video clip showing the effectiveness of Mexica/Aztec weapons during the Spanish Conquest. In the clip, anthropologists make and test the following weapons: bow and arrow, spear, sling, and macahuitl. The conclusion: Mexica/Aztec weapons were the equal of the Spanish guns and steel swords.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• aztec
• mexica
• weapons
• spanish
• conquest
• macahuitl
• sword
• sling
• hernan
• cortez
• empire
• tenochtitlan

[lokeradekadente81]

terrible intro music

[Noxiuhcoatl]

@Tizmaole Cold when it is cold, hot under the full sun. No contradictions here. The mexi'ca's armors where ligther and well suited for combat in Mesoamerica, the padding under the spaniards armor wasn't. Why use a heavy and uncomftable "steel plate-felt" armor, when a lighter (and equally effective) version was available? A simple reason to choose the local technology. And no, i am not LISTENING to anyone who i'm READING (including myself).

[eduds6]

@p0rcelaing0d

Man,Gunpowder could not decide wars at that time. Aztec people was defeated thanks for the Illnes they brought.

Cheers!

[p0rcelaing0d]

It wasn't just one thousand Spaniards versus the entire Aztec empire. People seem to forget the 50,000 or so non Aztec natives that the Spaniards recruited to their side. Also, the Chinese invented gunpowder, not the Europeans.

[WireMan7620]

The ceramic sling balls made me cringe more than any other of the weapons. Earthenware is sharp when it breaks, unbelievably sharp. Not to mention the weight and speed that that thing traveled. Couple that with the infection that would inset from thousands of tiny razor sharp bit of low fired clay embedded deep in the skin....... Not pleasant at all.

[luis5manuel]

putos españoles ni valientes ni muy inteligentes solo eran manipuladores a con venecia de ellos mismos contaron la istoria pero no escierto del todo solo la considencia de que los aztecas pensavan que era quesacothatl un dios y pensaron que el puto cortez era sino no la mentira no havian conquistao a los aztecas por que apezar de sus armas eran pocos no conocian el terreno y no uviera avido alianzas auque los pueblos vajo dominio nunca lo uvieran permitido ellos los aztecas por su ferozida en bt

[d00m0racl3]

@dafranx genetically were all meztizos as very few ppl can claim true racial purity ;)

[dafranx]

@Ixpatli What about white Americans? Are they mestizos as well as the other Americans? Since you said that Americans are mestizos.

[ACERTIXO2002]

darles el nombre de americanos a los nativos me parece no es el nombre apropiado. @Liquit31 El Norte había varias tribus. En México los aztecas en el sur los Incas. Es un insulto que les digan americanos. Mañana voy a ir a Europa y los voy a Llamar Nahuatlacos. Me van a decir que estoy loco. Eso mismo les contesto a ellos.¿Como van a descubrir un continente que tenía una población de 80 millones de seres humanos? Es algo estúpido.

[ACERTIXO2002]

Ciertamente no querían la guerra quería el oro, su maldita codicia pudo mas y decidió ese genocida de Cortés quemarle los pies a Cuahutemoc estando vivo. @33amra33 Cuahutemoc nunca se quejó. Esos eran hombres decentes y valientes, y no los malditos rateros, asesinos, trinqueteros, y genocidas que en mala hora llegaron a esas tierras.

[33amra33]

Spaniards didn't want that war. the other native peoples did. Cortez won because he knew how to manipulate the enemies of the Mexicas (real name of what we know as aztecs) politically.

[omegapoint777]

I like how in the beginning the spic is speaking the white man's language.