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Hernan Cortes intended to move beyond coastal exploration, penetrate the interior, learn what was there, and take control of it.
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“not just to explore the coast,”
“but to penetrate into the interior,”
“to find out what's there and to seize control of it.”Play from 3:40Report a misattribution
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