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The Inca had never seen a horse and did not know the effects of a horse charge by a rider using stirrups.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“They'd never seen a horse before or knew what it could do if you integrate a rider into the saddle with stirrups and the shock value of that charge.”Play from 29:36Report a misattribution
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