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

    Dwarkesh Podcast · Oct 1, 2026 · 1 h 37 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 same thing to an…

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