Are there any comparable stories of complete bullshit luck enabling mass conquest?



I don't think even Alexander's conquests were this lucky

>>14905574 (OP)

Pizarro was even luckier, even if you discount the fact that he stumbled onto the Inca while they were in a civil war, since that was inevitable at some point given how fucky their system was at the top level

>>14905574 (OP)

Cortez was only lucky in the sense that the indians he was conquering happened to have lots of gold. The conquest itself was almost entirely calculated and executed in a skilled manner. These men weren't some malnourished retards from the slums of Seville. They were tercios and veterans of the Italian wars. They knew exactly what they were doing.

Peru is in picrel



There were so many points where Cortez could've easily been completely btfo if the wind didn't blow his way that it reads like fanfic. But yes both he and Pizarro were excellent strategists exploiting all the bullshit luck they had.

Stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vilcaconga happening more than once in various parts of the spanish conquests makes the luck thing sound like cope. Maybe incredible luck can swing the initial conquest but maintaining that control for centuries would take longer, far more improbable streaks

>Cortez could've easily been completely btfo if the wind didn't blow his way that it reads like

Irrelevant. The Spanish would have sent another expedition soon after. If anything it just proved how adaptable Cortez was if he almost got btfo many times.

>The Spanish would have sent another expedition soon after

They wouldn't have actually. The Crown was already very dubious about the whole concept of conquest and Cortez was originally supposed to be forging trade ties. If he ended up losing thousands of colonial troops for nothing they would've pulled the plug on attempts at conquest, not to mention that the Aztecs would be familiarized with the Spanish tech and strategy.

>They wouldn't have actually. 

That's debatable I suppose. Only they knew what they would have done. 

>The Crown was already very dubious about the whole concept of conquest



nigga what. the spanish established a network of claimed islands in the Caribbean using Italian cartographers and then used those as ports to enter the mainland. they set foot in America a decade before conquering the Aztecs and established Spanish Florida.

It wasn’t luck. It was skillz. That’s how they not only did it once, but thrice (mesoamerica, andes and philipines)

The pathetic performance of the Indians and the overwhelming military force of the Spanish were the determining factors in the conquest of America.

It was more that the Indios almost unanimously sided with the Spaniard; and put their lore on Mesoamerican geography, languages, and culture at the Spaniard's disposal.

Tenochtitlan was just that much HATED, by its rivals and erstwhile subjects.

Narvaez was already on his way idk why everyone just ignores that poor fuck.

>indios

They're literally your people panchito

>>14905574 (OP)

>stories of complete bullshit luck enabling mass conquest

You're living in one, hopefully nearing the end.
