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Two manuscripts in one audiobook:
• The Conquistadors: A Captivating Guide to the Spanish Explorers, Conquest of the Americas, Cultural Exchange, and Legacy • The Columbian Exchange: A Captivating Guide to the Transatlantic Transfer of People, Plants, Animals, Ideas, Resources, and More Between the Americas and Europe
In the first part of this audiobook, you will discover the following:
• How the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean was used as a jumping-off point for Spanish expeditions; • The details of many failed and few successful Spanish expeditions to settle the lands around the Caribbean; • How the Portuguese came to dominate Brazil; • Why the Portuguese dominated trade in the East; • How Hernán Cortés conquered the Aztecs and defeated his Spanish rival for control of Mexico; • Why Pizzaro met an untimely death after conquering the Incas.
In the second part of this audiobook, you will learn about the following:
• Japanese samurai who guarded silver shipments in Mexico in the 1600s; • Catarina de San Juan, who began life as a Muslim girl in India and ended as a popular saint in Mexico; • The immense amount of silver from Peru and Mexico, which fueled Spain’s Golden Century and led to repeated bankruptcy; • American chili peppers giving some heat to cuisines from Hungary to Korea; • Crops domesticated by indigenous Americans enabling China to double its population; • Disease from the Americas making millions of Europeans miserable, including Henry VIII, Casanova, Ivan the Terrible, and Beethoven; • The annual Manila Galleons from Acapulco to the Philippines creating the first global economy;
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© 2024 Captivating History (Lydbog): 9798882207099
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Lydbog: 10. maj 2024
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