The Worst Conquistador You Don't Know

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Conquistadors by definition were bad people that conquered the New World. But who was the worst one at it?

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41 thoughts on “The Worst Conquistador You Don't Know”

  9. The interesting thing to me about the whole “you’re Spanish and Christian now” thing is that it’s an abuse of old Spanish law. Believe it or not, it was actually illegal in Spain to just roll up to a place and conquer it (if you were below a certain rank. Elites were legally allowed to conquer places). You could, however, have the legal right to put down rebellions and award yourself territory for your “successful stopping of a revolt”. So, what conquistadors would do is roll up to a place and say “you’re a Spanish subject now” and when those people obviously replied with “I’m not Spanish” you could then respond with “see? They’re trying to revolt from our great empire”.

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  17. Everyone complains about Columbus but no one is revoking Cortez Week. Looking forward to Panfilo pt 2, so far still just dumb enough that he's one of many and never did anything major. It's fun hearing the story of someone you know very little about and learn the twists of their story.
    I'm a little split on Aztec vs Mexica, ya there are a lot of different people under the Aztec empire who don't like being there, but I also think Mexica is too similar to modern Mexico. It gets the point across.

    Great videos, just a week ago I thought you could use more.

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  37. While I like your take, you did fail to mention it wasn't just Small Pox that doomed the Aztec, Cortez also had a sizeable army of Natives who had been brutalized and enslaved by the Aztec. Numbers vary, but it was probably around 20,000 native warriors sided with Cortez and helped defeat the surviving Aztecs.

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    Yet reaction channels and other types of copy and paste channels are always being overly recommendable

    I love the work u guys put into ur videos

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