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Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?
Technology and AI

Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?

Dwarkesh Podcast 01.10.2026 97 min
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New episode with military historian Si Sheppard.The conquests of the Aztec and Inca empires might be the most shocking events in human history.Hernan Cortés and some hundreds of Conquistadors landed on a new continent they knew basically nothing about, and within 2 and a half years, conquered the 6 million strong Aztec empire.Then, a decade later, Francisco Pizarro did the…

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