The Conquistadors
A Very Short Introduction| By: | Matthew Restall; Felipe Fernandez-Armesto |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Academic US |
| Print ISBN: | 9780195392296 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780199752942 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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 established was even stranger than their real achievements. This Very Short Introduction deploys the latest scholarship to shatter and replace the traditional narrative