Aztecs vs Spartans - Who Would Win?

The Aztecs are almost winning when suddenly they hear the Spartan general yell "ARES! DESTROY MY ENEMIES AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!" 💀💀💀

Aztecs had buildings too they had legal courts, aqueducts, stadiums, schools, city squares. Not huts.. they even had a sewer system.

In order to become a Jaguar warrior the applicant had to capture 12 enemies in 2 days, which is totally insane. If you think beating an enemy is hard, now imagine it doing the same without lethal force while they don't hold back, kind of Batman like. Also, the aztecs avoided pitched battles, so it was unlikely that they would just jump by hundreds into the enemies spears like in the video.

It should be noted that the Aztecs defeated Spanish armies (with native allies) on several occasions prior to the disease taking a stronghold on the empire. A prominent example of this is the first battle of Tenochtitlan, where the Spanish lost 3/4's of their army along with thousands of their allies. This also happened after the massacre at the Templo mayor, where the majority of the Aztec elite warriors (Eagles, Jaguars, Otomies etc.) were ambushed and killed while they took part in a religious ceremony without weapons. If an army of Aztecs were able to defeat a Spanish army with tens of thousands of native allies (not to mention with cavalry and artillery) without significant deployment of their elite forces, I think they'd stand a chance or two against a Spartan army.

The fact that they have very different styles of battle yet still hold their own is amazing!

It’s crazy to see how advanced in military training and equipment the Spartans were in 500 BC compared to the Aztecs 2000 years later!

Infographics Show bringing back Deadliest Warrior is something I didn't know I wanted.

Guerrilla warfare has proven time and time again that it can be a complete nightmare for organized militaries. The Romans, and British learned this the hard way. As apparently have the Spartans in this scenario. It always surprises me that great armies do not study this type of unconventional warfare. Some look down at it as dishonorable. I think Sun Tzu has covered this about being aware of anything possible on the battlefield.

So the question is more specifically who would win in a fight a thousand Spartans or every Aztec warrior on the continent

0:08 unarmored? The Aztecs actually had armor made out of dozens of layers of chemically hardened cotton which functioned like hardened leather armor

I'm pretty sure that the Spartans reached their peak power during the Peloponnesian war, at which point they had access to iron weapons and armor rather than the bronze that they used in the Greco-Persian war... They also had access to a great number of colonies and slaves, but all of this combined was still very tiny compared to the Aztec Empire. Still, the Aztec Empire was never stronger than the Persian Empire under Xerxes. Although Sparta alone was no match for the Persian Empire... they relied on an alliance with Athens and many other city-states. If this video were about the Delian League versus the Aztecs, it would be a Greek victory. And if it were Macedonian Empire under Iskander, they would have gone on to conquer all of Mexico, just like they did to Persia. Roman Empire vs Aztecs would just be outright unfair....

Everything I’ve ever seen or read about Spartans, they use the terrain to their advantage. I don’t see them making the tactical mistake of chasing the Aztecs onto unfamiliar ground, IMO

It depends on the terrain. The Aztecs had missile weapons , were highly mobile and had access to poisons. But in hand to hand combat the Spartans have the advantage. They had a high threshold for pain, they moved faster, incredible endurance, Bronze armor,

In the Americas Aztecs would win easy with overwhelming numbers and jungle warfare experience. In Sparta The Spartans would use the mountains to win a long but almost flawless defensive campaign.

Something interesting about the writings of the conquistadores is that they were utterly horrified that a Macuahuitl was able to "decapitate a horse with a single blow" (this may as well be a myth but it shows the horror this simple weapon brought to them), even so, spanish armor was great at avoiding lethal wounds or amputations but the sheer strenght of the blows could still break their bones and leave them incapacitated, that's why they mostly used Tlaxcaltecas as the front rown and relied on firearms to avoid getting into hand to hand combat

One thing about the Aztecs is that they fought using Psychological warfare, and where quick to adapt their fighting styles the only reason That the triple alliance lost was because the Aztecs made a lot of enemies and the Conquistadores allied with many tribes already familiar with Aztec warfare, one of those tribes being the Otomis, and Tlaxcalans (other group of Nahuas) already familiar with their fighting style of the triple alliance, A major hindrance besides smallpox in which many historians overlook is Shifting alliances primarily amongst the Tlaxcalans who had internal political shifts either siding with the triple alliance or with Cortes who did not have authorization from the Cuban governorship

Aztec:*War drums* Spartan:*Nokia Arabic ringtone flute* 😂😂

Kind of a misconception that just because the Azteca didn't have high end metal working that they were less technologically advanced. Macahuitls are incredibly deadly, light while still possessing a razor sharp edge. The elite warriors of Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca weren't just well trained soldiers, they were shock troops and masters of asymmetric warfare. It's likely the Aztecs would've even been able to win against Spain had the smallpox epidemic not decimated the native population of the Americas. With a numbers advantage, tactics the Spartans had never seen, and a warrior mentality to match the spartans this is by no means one sided.

Thanks for the new content the infographic show keep it up

Ok now let’s have that Aztec/Mayan God of war game 😂