Hello and welcome to the History of the Atlantic World Podcast, a member of the Big Heads Media Network. This is part five of Conquest of the Americas. I am your caffeinated host Jesse Wuest, thank you for listening. Now, as you know Big Heads Media is sort of like a Netflix of Podcasts because what they do is sift through the great sandbox of the Internet to find the best podcasts and collect them for people who enjoy listening to them like you and me. Needless to say that means we are part of an in awesome line-up of history podcasts. One of them is Deep Into History which is an absolutely fantastic show:

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One might sum up the conquest of the Americas basically as an extension of the crusades and especially of the Reconquista of Spain and Portugal. These nations were reconquered by Christian warriors slowly and hundreds of years after the start of the Reconquista, the final Muslim kingdom Grenada capitulated to Spain. In that same year, 1492 – Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in the name of Ferdinand and Isabella, the most Catholic King and Queen of this most Catholic realm. Now, last episode we learned that the conquest of the Americas wasn’t completely one-sided – while no American armies sailed to Europe to sack coastal villages – American ideas – and specifically, Brazilian ideas - certainly did cross the Atlantic and one migh...

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