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The Aztec and Inca societies were vulnerable because their hierarchical systems concentrated absolute loyalty in the person at the top.
Unresolved speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“You're actually right. The key turn there, as you used it, was dispersion. The vulnerability of the Aztec, the Inca, was that hierarchical nature of their society and the absolute loyalty that the system had invested into whoever was at top of the social hierarchical tree,”
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