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Conquistadors

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  • 2000-2008
  • 1 Season
  • PBS
  • Documentary
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This documentary tells the story of the Spanish expeditions in the early sixteenth century that conquests America. This 4-part series Michael Wood (historian) travels in the footsteps of the Spanish expeditions of Hernán Cortés whose conquests was one of the most cataclysmic events in Modern American history.

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Michael Wood
Presenter
Peter Bieringer
Narrator - German version
Andreas Birnbaum
Narrator - German version

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

The Fall of The Aztecs

60 mins

Host Michael Wood follows the route taken by Hernan Cortes (a lawyer by training, not a military man) in his 1519-21 conquest of Mexico. Accompanied at first by just 500 men and a slave woman named Malinche, who spoke both the Aztec and Mayan languages, Cortes first encountered Montezuma's ambassador on Easter Sunday 1519. He was, says Wood, "singlehandedly to destroy a civilization."

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