Cuba & the USA: an intertwined history
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The Impact of the Spanish Conquest in the Caribbean
In some ways the Caribbean because it was the first side of conquest serves as almost as a laboratory for European conquest and colonization. A lot of the systems that the Spanish put in place there to mobilize indigenous labor to force religious conversion on them were all things that then the Spanish took to Mexico and to Central and South America. It's a very stark period in history and we will know, we've covered on our podcast before the devastating impact,. more broadly in this region.
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