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Armed and aggressive Aztec attacks an armored Achaean adversary amid anachronistic assault!

The Achaeans were one of the tribes of Ancient Greece as labeled by Herodotus, most noted as a stand in for "Greek" as used by Homer in the Illiad.

The Aztecs, more correctly called the Mexica, were the rulers of the Aztec Empire, also known as the Triple Alliance, controlling most of central Mexico at their apex.

Such a scene would be historically impossible, as the Mycenaean age that spawned the Achaeans came to an end over 2,000 years before the rise of the Aztec Empire in 1428. But in the playground of our imagination we can pretend and speculate.

The Achaean has the advantage of armor and weaponry, as he hails from a land where bronze weapons and armor were abundant, whereas bronzecraft for the Mexico was just a few centuries old by the time of their annihilation at the hands of the Spanish; lack of tin meant such bronze had to be made of arsenic, and as a result Aztec bronze was limited in availability and production. Unlike the Hellene the Mexica warrior carriers a wooden club embedded with obsidian, called the Macuahuitl. It is sharp, and it doubles as a club for brute force swings, but it is not well suited towards his Hellenic enemy.

The Hellene has abandoned his dory, or spear, in favor of his xiphos, an iron sword that better suits individual combat with a shield. While he has the advantage of arms and armor, his failing is in his style of warfare; the Greek fights as part of a formation, not as an individual. Separated from his aspis shieldwall often called a phalanx, he must face down an Mesoamerican warrior who, by comparison, is much more comfortable in this individual engagement.

Description

Armed and aggressive Aztec attacks an armored Achaean adversary amid anachronistic assault!

The Achaeans were one of the tribes of Ancient Greece as labeled by Herodotus, most noted as a stand in for "Greek" as used by Homer in the Illiad.

The Aztecs, more correctly called the Mexica, were the rulers of the Aztec Empire, also known as the Triple Alliance, controlling most of central Mexico at their apex.

Such a scene would be historically impossible, as the Mycenaean age that spawned the Achaeans came to an end over 2,000 years before the rise of the Aztec Empire in 1428. But in the playground of our imagination we can pretend and speculate.

The Achaean has the advantage of armor and weaponry, as he hails from a land where bronze weapons and armor were abundant, whereas bronzecraft for the Mexico was just a few centuries old by the time of their annihilation at the hands of the Spanish; lack of tin meant such bronze had to be made of arsenic, and as a result Aztec bronze was limited in availability and production. Unlike the Hellene the Mexica warrior carriers a wooden club embedded with obsidian, called the Macuahuitl. It is sharp, and it doubles as a club for brute force swings, but it is not well suited towards his Hellenic enemy.

The Hellene has abandoned his dory, or spear, in favor of his xiphos, an iron sword that better suits individual combat with a shield. While he has the advantage of arms and armor, his failing is in his style of warfare; the Greek fights as part of a formation, not as an individual. Separated from his aspis shieldwall often called a phalanx, he must face down an Mesoamerican warrior who, by comparison, is much more comfortable in this individual engagement.