The Spanish sometimes supplied weapons to valued local chiefs and warlords as a way to bind them into their coalition.

“stuff because that was good enough as protection against local weapons they would not have done that carried it back to europe that would have made them too vulnerable but here you adapt to the circumstances you have more freedom of mobility it's less exhausting wearing cotton than it is to wear metal so they would make that adaptation they would even sometimes for very prized allies again as a way of integrating them into the spanish coalition is provide them like local chiefs and warlords with spanish weapons just to emphasize that they”

“that you're so special to me and this this was effective in binding them together and and they were very very clever in identifying the local sub chiefs beneath the Aztec layer of authority who would be receptive to the idea of why you're taking orders from them when you get a better deal from us right they knew for example in”