The conquistadors : a very short introduction / Matthew Restall and Felipe Fernández-Armesto.
With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the course of history, but the myth they esta...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | Very short introductions ;
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Table of Contents:
- A great many hardships
- Many victories, great conquests
- To give account of whom I am
- By a miracle of god
- A shortcut to the grave.