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Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire in about five years, roughly ten years after Cortés’s conquest.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“an empire of six million people two and a half years uh pizarro does the same thing for the inca empire 10 years later in about five years so it's insane how fast these conquests happened um and just how little time that the even though in principle they could have figured out ways in which to combat cavalry and things just how little time they had to adapt all the while their whole social structure is disintegrating there's disease etc there's all this like psychological shock”Play from 34:47Report a misattribution
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