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Coming finally to todays lecture yesterday, our topic was discovery. Today is going to the plantation. There is Something Else that sort of bridges the two that we should not pass over without comment. The headline fort would be quite simply conquest the beginning phases of plantation involved conquest of a particularly intensive sort. Bluntly put, the old world progressively and massively conquered the new. The most famous part of this process was the spanish conquest of wide regions of mexico and central and south america, and the destruction along the way of aztecs and mayas and incas and many other native groupings. Historians ever since have wondered how such a small group of invaders could win out so easily and so completely win the numerical odds went so heavily against them. Cortez, the spanish leader who conquered most of mexico in the 15 20s, had only a few hundred soldiers, while his chief opponent, the aztec emperor montezuma, had many many thousands. The question this rais

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