Talk:Aztec warfare

message: This article seems to be based on the Age of Kings and I propose someone deletes it until it is done by professional researching.
As of now I cannot find anything to back up this article. There seems to be nothing to validate the fact that the army was divided into two seperate branchs. The school section is already covered by the general Aztec article and has not place in a section about Aztec military. Aztec weapons should be filed under weapons stubs after being researched and verified. Nigelthefish 19:04, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That may be because it is alternatively spelled cuauhololli, and you'll find a few matches for that. --cjllw | TALK 01:10, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: age of kings

message: I was going to do a rewrite, but I couldn't find any WP:V info. so... I added a cleanup tag.  I removed several sections that were a direct copyvio of the aztec military article at answers.com (except the size of the army was increased in this copy of it... no sourcing for the claim).  I removed the school section; it didn't seem to fit here and the info is at Aztec anyway.  I wikified it a bit and I added a verfiable tag.  Weapon info needs to be sourced.--Isotope23 16:50, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup and Tags

message: I just rewrote the bastard. Did a little research, wiped away the crap and sorted it out a bit. it's still a stub, but I can't really say I care.--The Enslaver 21:38, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That may be because it is alternatively spelled cuauhololli, and you'll find a few matches for that. --cjllw | TALK 01:10, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: I Agree

message: Did the Aztecs use any kind of siege warfare (battering rams, catapults, etc)?  It says they fortified some of their cities, which leads me to at least ponder the possibility of siege tactics. any help in this would be appreciated.Scott Free (talk) 01:40, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I know, city walls such as those found in Mesopotamia or Europe were rare to non-existent in Mesoamerica and therefore there would be no need for siege warfare machines.  Just my thoughts.  Why don't you research, 4shizzal?  Madman (talk) 14:23, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  siege warfare 

message: Ya, that sentence is taken out of context. There wasn't a single Mesoamerican civilization that fought the Spanish on equal terms. To say that they couldn't defeat them one on one is taking the history completely out of context. The Mapuche defeated them as well as the Chichimeca and there were thousands upon thousands of Indian auxiliaries helping them. Montejo the Younger was beaten back by the Chichen Itza no less then twice untill he got help from the Xiu Maya. Do I need sources explaining the idea of Indian auxiliaries to take out the sentence? I can find a book on them. InternetHero (talk) 15:35, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The sentence that you dislike is not in disagreement with what you say. The context is that of flower wars and the argument made by some scholars that the aztecs didn't fight to kill but to capture. The sentence you removed says: "This has been used as an argument to explain the defeat of the Aztecs by the Spanish but it is no longer considered to be probable - since sources clearly state that Aztecs did kill their Spanish opponents whenever they had the chance." In essence the sentence agrees with you since it says that it is wrong to believe that the cultural difference of aztecs wanting captives while the spaniards fought to kill was among the reasons the spanish prevailed in battles - it says that aztecs also fought to kill outside of the context of ritual battles as is testified in many sources. Also you are wrong that no mesoamerican civilization fought against the spaniards in a pitched battle - those of tlaxcala did (just after the spanish arrived) and nearly destroyed them. The Tlaxcaltecs then became the Spaniards first group of indigenous allies that helped them fight the other indigenous groups as "indian auxliaries". I think maybe the sentencw ould read better if it were changed to "This apparent difference in military culture has been advanced as an argument to explain why the spaniards prevailed throughout Mesoamerica. But since both native and spanish sources show that the Aztecs did fight to kill against other indigenous groups and against the spaniards, this argument is now rejected and historians place more emphasis in the Spaniards' strategy of procuring indigenpous allies and their techonological advantages to explain the Spanish succes." ·Maunus·ƛ· 15:51, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useless sentence 

message: hey guys.. what would be the difference between a spear and a lance? just that i dont know...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jirovidicama (talk • contribs) 02:23, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In terms of the Aztecs there would be no difference, and the usage of different terms in the article is probably based on a mistranslation of the Spanish word lanza ("spear"). Regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 18:56, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  weapons 

message: Perhaps it would be helpful to list the type of wood used for their weapons? Was it rubber? 96.10.190.211 (talk) 22:11, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wood 

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message: Why isn’t there anything on psychological warfare with Aztec death whistles? If you do a google search you can find some news articles about them  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.18.38.178 (talk) 03:10, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death whistles 

message: The text runs over the images on the section Spanish eyewitness description of Aztec warriors maybe someone knows a fix for this? 83.248.170.34 (talk) 10:36, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: text over images

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