They did kill a lot of Europeans, though. Syphilis was basically indistinguishable from a hemmoragic fever when it first hit Europe. Malaria et al killed off most of the Conquistadors.
No, what you do is that you get the Aztec tributary states that joined Cortez to merc him and all his friends after they overthrew the Aztec empire, take their stuff and reverse engineer it, and unify Central America into a defensive military alliance.
The Incas could probably make good use of metallurgical technology. They had a big, organized, prosperous empire with this weird state-collectivist redistributive economy.
They did kill a lot of Europeans, though. Syphilis was basically indistinguishable from a hemmoragic fever when it first hit Europe. Malaria et al killed off most of the Conquistadors.
No, what you do is that you get the Aztec tributary states that joined Cortez to merc him and all his friends after they overthrew the Aztec empire, take their stuff and reverse engineer it, and unify Central America into a defensive military alliance.
The Incas could probably make good use of metallurgical technology. They had a big, organized, prosperous empire with this weird state-collectivist redistributive economy.