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The Tarascans smelted silver and gold, attracting Spanish greed, but could not smelt iron to resist the Spanish.
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“They're the worst of both worlds. They could smelt silver and gold to attract the greed of the Spaniards, but they couldn't smelt iron to hold them off.”Play from 48:29Report a misattribution
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