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Cortés relied heavily on improvisation in his approach to conquering the Aztecs.

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“Of course, he has a ton of improvisation in the way he approaches the conquest of the Aztecs. And then Pizarro, you know, just knows the whole details of what Cortes did a decade earlier,”
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