Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?

Okay, today I'm chatting with professor and military historian, Cy Shepard. I want to talk to you about the conquest of the Aztec and the Inca empires, because these are some of the most shocking events in human history, unparalleled among all the military and diplomatic achievements ever made.

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1. 01Generational knowledge accrued from captains reporting in on tides and wind currents and whatever land they've managed to reconnoiter, building out the map as they go along, are ab
2. 02The Spanish meanwhile are heading west We honor the story of Christopher Columbus in 1492 He sailed the sea blue That was entrepreneurship This was an expedition to arrive at the O
3. 03Later in 1518, he assigns that task to a man who he's had a somewhat tempestuous relationship with, a man named Hernán Cortés