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The conquest of the Incas in Peru under Pizarro, ten years after Cortés's conquest, was strikingly similar, with Pizarro largely following Cortés's playbook.
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“um the tactics before you get to that i think just to round out the story in many ways what's striking about the conquest of the incas in peru under pizarro 10 years later is how similar it was to cortez's story how much he just basically followed the playbook but”22:47Report a misattribution
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