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Not really Spain so much as a couple Spaniards and a mass revolt of vassals, tributaries and rival republics.
When you actually look at the size and population of the Triple Alliance and compare it to European and MENA states of the time it’s not nearly as large or powerful as you might think.Â
It was a tributary empire with its core being an alliance of city states. It was very decentralized even by the standards of pre modern states.Â
Cortez just happened to be the breeze that blew down the house of cards.Â
It’s not even really due to technology in of itself, but the political system. The best point of comparison for the Old World is actually Ancient Greece. The Romans picked apart the successor kingdoms and the various city state leagues with impunity due to their fragmented and backstabbing tendencies.Â
TL;DR: it didn’t need to be Spaniards, almost any politically astute  outsider could have torn the Aztecs into pieces due to the inherent weakness of their political system.
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Please tell me that is a real image from a video I can find online
Not really Spain so much as a couple Spaniards and a mass revolt of vassals, tributaries and rival republics.
When you actually look at the size and population of the Triple Alliance and compare it to European and MENA states of the time it’s not nearly as large or powerful as you might think.Â
It was a tributary empire with its core being an alliance of city states. It was very decentralized even by the standards of pre modern states.Â
Cortez just happened to be the breeze that blew down the house of cards.Â
It’s not even really due to technology in of itself, but the political system. The best point of comparison for the Old World is actually Ancient Greece. The Romans picked apart the successor kingdoms and the various city state leagues with impunity due to their fragmented and backstabbing tendencies.Â
TL;DR: it didn’t need to be Spaniards, almost any politically astute  outsider could have torn the Aztecs into pieces due to the inherent weakness of their political system.