(2025) At the time (101 points, 117 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43478789

It is a lie that "400 Spanish soldiers subjugated the Mexican Empire of about 6 million inhabitants."

The Aztecs had a much smaller population, and the majority of those 6 million "inhabitants" sided with the Spanish because they were at permanent war with the Aztecs, who waged wars almost every day to capture victims for human sacrifices.