4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
causal claim

The speaker says that controlling the emperor was the key to Cortes's control of the empire.

Si Sheppard · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026

In their words

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“Having the emperor was the key.”
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0.95how strongly it was put, not whether it is true
0.90importance to the conversation
0.90confidence the claim was read correctly