First of all, the total ruthlesness and singlemindedness and lack of good faith of the Conquistadores, something alien to the Aztecs and Incas and something which they did not fully appreciate until it was too late.

Secondly, the Conquistadores were much better armed than the Incas and the Aztecs who had to make do with wooden clubs and the occasional bronze weapons against iron pikes, swords and a little later, guns. The war horses of the Spanish also intimidated them much.

A third reason often mentioned - but this one especially relevant to the Mayas - was the belief that a 'white god' would at one point come across the ocean, which made the Mayas hold back until it was too late.

Through a telescope. Sorry, I'm being deliberately unhelpful. Lol to the above ! Actually you are probably right, in a way, because I think he distanced himself from it, he saw it as a means to assert his own requirements in the achievement of power. Singlemindedness is what Napoleon was all about and the idea of la Liberte et al was not part of what he was achieving, no, that was military domination for the glory of the French Empire. The disorganisation of the state was exactly what Napoleon wanted to build from in his pursuit of power, a timely distraction which he took advantage of to the full.

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