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The Conquistadors: Exploration, Greed, and Destruction — Fexingo History

From the moment Hernán Cortés burned his ships on the Veracruz shore to the fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Spanish conquistadors remade the Americas through a volatile mix of courage, cruelty, and…

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