9. The Aztecs - A Clash of Worlds
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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'It's All in the Canoe'
Cortez and his 11 ships quickly made the short crossing from cuba to mexico. He sailed over the exact spot where six, six million years earlier, the chik shulub asteroid had impacted the earth. The weeks of sailing along the mexican coast dragged by without incident. And then one day a watchman shouted that there was a canoe paddling out to meet them. There was a man inside it dressed in the style of a mayon peasant. But when he got closer, they were astonished to hear him shout out in spanish with tears in his voice, gentlemen, are you christians? Whose subjects are you? This was a spanish man
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