Many bills painting the conquest of the hot global as a outstanding army success, with Cortés' tremendously outnumbered yet higher armed Spaniards defeating hordes of superstitious savages. despite the fact that, the truth of those occasions is way extra complicated and no less important. the 1st Conquistadors who had sailed looking for prosperity, encouraged via desires of limitless riches, quickly grew to become dissatisfied and stressed. With affliction rampant, assets exhausted, and the Caribbean populations dwindling, that they had little replacement yet to discover new territories and peoples to take advantage of. This name exhibits how, reinforced by way of influxes of war-hardened veterans from Europe and a military of over 30,000 allied Indian troops, they got here to depend on and ideal what they knew most sensible - killing for revenue, and with out mercy.
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