Tag: Conquest

Free Download Irwin R. Blacker, "Cortés and the Aztec Conquest"
English | 2015 | pages: 162 | ISBN: 1640192719 | EPUB | 10,1 mb
In three years, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, leading a few hundred Spanish soldiers, overcame a centuries-old empire that could put tens of thousands of warriors on the field. Even after his god-like reputation had been shattered, and his horses and cannons were no longer regarded as supernatural, his ruthless daring took him on to victory. Yet in the end, his prize was not the gold that he had sought, but the destruction of the entire Aztec civilization.

Free Download American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard, Malcolm Hillgartner, Tantor Audio
English | 2017 | ISBN: B078GYGTTP | MP3@64 kbps | ~14:17:00 + EPUB | 395 Mb
For 400 years – from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army’s massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s – the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people.
Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world.