9. The Aztecs - A Clash of Worlds
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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Cortez's Journey Across the Atlantic
Cortez dallied around the port town of valencia for two years. He soon had enough money to buy passage on a ship across the atlantic. A dominican friar who wrote down his experience some years later, gives us some sense of what it must have been like. The ship is a very strong and narrow prison from which no one can flee. Most passengers go about as if out of their mind or in poor health. There is a terrible smell, especially below deck. It must have been a relief when he finally landed on the island of hispaniola,. This was the island where lumbus had first landed in the new world, and where the first
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