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Spanish for conquerors; Jiang describes them as mercenaries, bandits, and lower-class opportunity seekers leaving Spain and Portugal for South and Central America.
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Spanish for conquerors; Jiang describes them as mercenaries, bandits, and lower-class opportunity seekers leaving Spain and Portugal for South and Central America.
Jiang argues that disease, divine-mistake, and local-alliance explanations of the Spanish conquest do not fully explain how 500 conquistadors conquered the Aztec empire; game theory must recover player incentives and moves.
"...in human history is you have another group of people called conquistadors from spain and there's only about 500 of them okay arriving about..."
"land uh of millions and millions okay now there are historical explanations including of course disease uh people from spain had diseases and the..."
"...people who start to conquer the New World are called the conquistadors, which is Spanish for conquerors. These are mercenaries, they're bandits, they're lower..."
"this morning is, how did a few thousand conquistadors, Spanish mercenaries, basically, how were they able to conquer millions and millions, millions of indigenous..."
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
Disease, steel, horses, and divide-and-conquer matter.
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