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Conquistadors and Border Disruption

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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The History of the Aztecs and the Spaniards

When you have a collision of two dynamic war-like societies like the Aztecs and the Spaniards, there's a cultural exchange. The Spanish brought back what? Tomatoes. They thought they were deadly nightshade for 100 years. And so sugar was not really known very much in Europe. It was coming from the tropics. So I had a debate with a prominent scholar, and he was lecturing me about all the pernicious things that the Europeans brought. But before we just to finish, that's kind of a left-wing narrative now that the Europeans came in and they brought all of these horrible things, and they destroyed paradise. History doesn't work that way

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