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S1 • E1 Dec 31, 1999 50m8.0
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."
