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The speaker says that if Cortes had arrived in 1619 instead of 1519, he would have found a swamp with moss-covered mountains and hills.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“A hundred years later,”
“if he'd arrived in 1619 as opposed to 1519,”
“he would have found a swamp with moss covered mountains and hills rising out of it.”Play from 42:53Report a misattribution
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