My research question I want to dive deeper into revolves around the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs. Military history has always been the sub-section of history I’ve been most fascinated with. So my potential question is how could a far smaller Spanish army overthrow the most powerful empire in Mesoamerica? I could throw in something along the lines like could the Spanish have defeated the Aztecs without the aid of other native tribes that were rivals with the Aztecs?
You’ll have a lot of great sources for Aztec / Spanish military encounters this week in class. Make sure you’re not posing your question as a counterfactual, but instead thinking about what role the support of the Aztec’s traditional enemies had in Spanish victory?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_history