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The Spanish defeat of Aztecs and Incas is explained as outsiders who do not know or respect the local sacred game and therefore can kill the god-king, break the ultimate taboo, and leave people helpless.
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The Spanish defeat of Aztecs and Incas is explained as outsiders who do not know or respect the local sacred game and therefore can kill the god-king, break the ultimate taboo, and leave people helpless.
"...make sense? All right? The problem now is, you have the Spanish who come in, and they don't know how the game is played...."
"...leads to the rise of the new empires. For example, the Spanish maritime collapse and the British empire gradually replaced. And after the World..."
"...these mercantile empires, like the British, the Portuguese, the French, the Spanish, and they have their own trade networks. And they refuse to work..."
"...ultimately triumphed over its main rivals who were the French, the Spanish, and the Dutch because of three major powers, okay? The first is..."
"...well and that's it. They can't learn French. They can't learn Spanish."
"...actually allowed England to overtake the French the Dutch and the Spanish okay then you have another theorist named John Jacques Rousseau and this..."
"...is controlled by these indigenous people the French are there the Spanish are there okay but the Americans are very very ambitious and they"
"...the country as fast as possible. They have to fight the Spanish, the French, the British, and the indigenous people in their land."
"...to where we are so this is the map of the spanish empire at the height of its power as you can see the..."
"...charge you a lot of levies. Okay? And so now the Spanish and the Portuguese are forced to look for new routes to the..."
"...Europe. That's how valuable these spices were. And so now the Spanish and the Portuguese have no choice but to discover new routes to..."
"...you become extremely close -minded. You become lazy. And so the Spanish, they had all this wealth, and they decided that they really didn't..."
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