The land of conquistadors, aztecs, and incas. Human sacrifice, religion, greed, war, and torture have all played their part in the building and crushing of magnificent empires. Bandits a continent that is now a living, breathing mix of cultures thousands of years old. [crash] our journey through latin america will take us to prehispanic civilizations all but destroyed by conquistadors, to sites which witnessed the violent struggles for independence from spain and then revolution and bloody civil war. Welcome to latin america, land of the legendary conquistadors, aztecs, and incas. And of course, tequila i begin this journey at the epicenter of this struggle, in mexico, located between the United States to the north and latin america to the south. From chihuahua in the northeast, i drive south to the silver city, zacatecas, and from there farther south to the ancient toltec site of tula. Then i head south to patzcuaro and to mexico city, built on top of the great aztec city tenochtitlan
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