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The speaker says Spanish forces fought one another repeatedly during the Cortés and Pizarro expeditions while conquering a much larger empire.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“And so they were literally fighting, you know, multiple cases in both these expeditions.”
“The Spanish are fighting each other while they are taking over a much larger empire.”Play from 1:24:01Report a misattribution
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