4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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Cortez's campaign depended critically on both battlefield advantages from horses and steel and on diplomacy.

Si Sheppard · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026

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“So the battlefield advantage, they had their horses, their steel, critical,”
“but just as critical was the diplomacy.”
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