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Here can be an interesting exploration of the ways that the annals of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to be popular understanding of these situations. The booklet offers a fresh account of the actions of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key common myths, uncovering the foundation of the inaccuracies and exploding the fallacies and myths behind each myth. This vividly written and authoritative booklet shows, for instance, that native People in the usa didn't take the conquistadors for gods and that small numbers of significantly outnumbered Spaniards didn't bring down great empires with stunning rapidity. We find that Columbus was effectively seen in his lifetime - and for decades after - as a briefly lucky but unexceptional participant in initiatives regarding many southern Europeans. It had been only much later that Columbus was portrayed as a great man who struggled the ignorance of his age to find the new world. Another popular misunderstanding - that the Conquistadors functioned together - is shattered by the revelation that huge numbers of dark-colored and native allies joined them in a conflict that pitted native Americans against one another. This and other factors, not the meant superiority of the Spaniards, made conquests possible. The Conquest, Restall shows, was more technical - plus more interesting - than conventional histories have portrayed it. Seven Misconceptions of the Spanish Conquest offers a richer plus more nuanced consideration of a key event in the annals of the Americas.
