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The conquistadors' strategy was to capture the person at the top of a society's hierarchy as a means of controlling the broader social structure.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“So this again is the playbook, the copybook,”
“Go to the top,”
“seize whoever is at the very pinnacle of the social hierarchy.”
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