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The Inca adapted captured Spanish swords into long pole weapons, improvising pike tactics to counter horses.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“They took captured enemy weapons. They learned to fix conquistador swords to the end of long wooden poles,”
“improvising pike tactics. Again, without being instructed to, they just intuited that keeping horses at a distance with long spears would be a way to negate”
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