
The Fall of the Aztec Empire
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Are the Conquistodors Creating the Empire?
The expedition is not an example of orders arriving from the spanish empire. Instead it's a slowly emerging frontier, with local actors taking upon themselves. These are individual actors engaging in entrapi rial activity. And those at the very bottom are investing simply their lives to come along and fight. So the end goal is to settle.
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