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Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?

October 1, 2026

Dwarkesh Patel (0:00)

Okay, today I'm chatting with professor and military historian, Si Sheppard. I want to talk to you about the conquest of the Aztec and the Inca empires, because these are some of the most shocking events in human history, unparalleled among all the military and diplomatic achievements ever made. You have a few…

In the process of doing so, they are often winning battles where they are outnumbered 100X to 1, 1000X to 1, and in many cases, not even taking a single casualty. They're doing this while upwards of 99 percent of their fighting forces are made up of the very natives that they're going to subjugate.

Si Sheppard (1:20)

Thank you. It's a great pleasure to be here. And yes, we're talking about the birth of our modern world, which played out between 600 to 500 years ago and created the modern globalized community that we all participate in today. It began in the 15th century when Europe backed up against the wall of the Atlantic…

In Spanish, meanwhile, heading west, we honor the story of Christopher Columbus in 1492, he sailed the sea blue. That was entrepreneurship. This was an expedition to arrive at the oriental markets by traveling west. Of course, his figures were completely wrong and he was saved by the fact that unknown to him, there…

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