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The speaker argues that there is no plausible interpretation of Spanish conquest as an effort to free Indigenous people from oppression.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“there wasn't a sense of like we're freeing these people from the shackles of oppression or at least there's no plausible story you could tell where there's that that's what you're doing but”Play from 1:21:06Report a misattribution
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