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Pizarro knew the details of Cortés's conquest a decade earlier and largely followed the same approach.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“Of course, he has a ton of improvisation in the way he approaches the conquest of the Aztecs. And then Pizarro, you know, just knows the whole details of what Cortes did a decade earlier,”
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