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How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400-Year History

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“A richly researched account of the clever, industrious and deeply practical men who followed in the footsteps, often literally, of Columbus, Cortés, Pizarro, Núñez de Balboa and others.”—Wall Street Journal

The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth.


Sixteenth—century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and th...