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The speaker thinks that even if the Aztecs or Incas had won short-term victories, a longer-term demographic crisis would have weakened their societies' capacity to remain integrated and resist internal pressure.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“I think even if the Aztecs' Inca had won the short-term proximate victories,”
“the longer-term demographic crisis would have undermined the functional capacity of their societies to remain integrated and to resist much longer the pressure within them.”Play from 41:52Report a misattribution
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