>>508610510not underplaying the Spanish at all, it's just not really a feat of warriors as much as a feat of highly organized and adventurous people, even the way they conquered the native empires has more to do with wit and political acumen in playing them against each other rather than swords and horses
also I didn't say Mongolians due to Genghis, I'm talking about modern Eurasians who having maintained some political autonomy haven't gone through the processes of self-taming as much and have maintained some kind of violence-prone honor-based culture without being retarded niggers, hence why I mentioned Chechens as well, even if the latter much more than Mongolians have been brought to obedience of Russia not without many losses on the Russian side due to their stubborness
there really is a difference between a soldier and a warrior anyway, soldiers can be ok warriors but not necessarily, warriors can be horrible soldiers, soldiering has much more to do with tolerating toil and orders, it's kinda the old Roman vs Germanic, the Roman soldier individually 1to1 might not have been much but in legions they kicked ass, while Germanics were fierce and warlike but didn't really tolerate that kind of life
one could say the best spot to be in is when you are in the process of having made good soldiers out of a living warlike people and you are able to get the best of both, fearless and violent groups of men who also follow orders and maintain discipline