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The speaker suggests that centralized societies may be vulnerable to collapse when their emperor is captured, while dispersed peoples may be harder to defeat in this way.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“um and so forth so it does seem to me that they like maybe just because they're so centralized you get the emperor and the whole thing falls and whereas other tribes are more dispersed”Play from 45:19Report a misattribution
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