The Conquistadors

Short History Of...

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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From the end of the 15th century, the Conquistadors changed the face of the Americas. Invading first the Caribbean and Mexico, they then plunged on into the rest of the continent and plundered the Pacific seaboard. So what do we know of these Europeans and their quest to expand a burgeoning empire? And who were the indigenous people that resisted invasion, negotiated with strangers, and fought off barbarians? This is a Short History of the Conquistadors. Written by Jo Furniss. With thanks to Professor Matthew Restall, Director of Latin American Studies at Penn State University and author of Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest and When Montezuma met Cortez. For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The best gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.
0:07.0	It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,
0:13.0	it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing's shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so guest.
0:17.0	For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so for that one change me a little.
0:24.0	Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.
0:31.0	It is March 1517. On the Yucatan Peninsula and what is now Mexico, a large group of men march down to the beach.
0:41.0	Their minds, villages from Campeche and they've received word of strangers arriving by sea.
0:48.0	Sure enough, there are two large boats more and offshore. Even from this distance they can see that the vessels and nothing like their own decorated canoes with woven, reed panels to catch the wind.
1:01.0	These are many times larger, wide-bottomed and immensely tall with vast white sails.
1:08.0	The Mayan chief has seen these ships scouting the coastline. They've sailed from the place where the sun rises.
1:17.0	A smaller ship floats in the bay and there are rowing boats sitting empty on the sand.
1:23.0	The Mayan's estimate that a hundred men must have come ashore, twice the number of their delegation.
1:30.0	They grip their spears and the pssidian knives and go looking for the intruders.
1:36.0	They find them beside a freshwater pool, filling water barrels.
1:41.0	Their helmets are the colour of dark silver and metal also covers their torso and hips, leaving only their arms and legs protruding.
1:49.0	They look like tortoises in their shells.
1:53.0	One of the intruders sees the bear chested Mayans and the whole group scramble to their feet, hands on their swords.
2:02.0	The Mayan chief breaks the standoff by pointing towards his village whose fires send up welcoming plumes of smoke through the palm trees.
2:14.0	One of the visitors steps forward, seemingly their chief.
2:18.0	Slapping the plate on his chest, he says, Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba.
2:24.0	This must be his name.
2:26.0	Cordoba talks, but the head-mind doesn't understand, so turns on his heel to lead the way to his village. The foreigners follow.
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