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The speaker says Pizarro replicated Cortes's strategy during the conquest of Peru and that it succeeded with the Inca.
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“in the conquest of Peru,”
“Pizarro was replicating Cortez's strategy,”
“which, by the way, was go get a meeting with the emperor and then kidnap the emperor and force him at sword point to say that actually everything's fine and that everyone should listen to your orders. That was Cortez's strategy and it actually worked.”
“And then Pizarro did the same thing and it worked.”Play from 2:13:41Report a misattribution
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