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The speaker says Spanish conquest in the New World involved extensive rape and assault.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“humanitarian uh even plausible motivation to the spanish they were just very willing um and i think maybe even worse than almost any other european conquest ever uh the spanish in the new world is massacre huge swaths of innocent women and children uh like literal genocide intentional genocide not just disease um yeah crazy amounts of rape and assault so”Play from 1:20:42Report a misattribution
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