Welcome to Dance Know's History at Everybody. We got a big one for you today.

It's the conquistadors, that group of conquerors, traders of men that cross the Atlantic in pursuit of empire, of wealth, of domination in what they called the New World.

This is a phenomenally interesting new study by Fernando Sivanters.

He's the professor of Ali Modern History at the University of Bristol, and he has brought some extraordinary

research rigor to the subject, finding all sorts of new things about this group of people just how genocidely brutal were they.

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Fernando Sivanters talking about the conquistadors, enjoy.

Fernando, thank you very much coming on the podcast.

Pleasure.

Do you know as someone who's descended from a First World War general on the Western Front,

I've always been quite fascinated by these little groups, these little car drars of usually men from the past,

who everyone can agree that we absolutely hate.

And it strikes me that First World War generals are there and conquistadors are also there.

I mean, how do you define conquistadors first?

Well, it's quite a tricky one because obviously the name came much later.

They call themselves conquistadors after what they did.

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