The Decisive Battles of World History

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x Cortés fought and won several battles against the Tlaxcalan, the one major group in central Mexico who had not yet been conqu ...

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and the succession crisis caused by the deaths of the old emperor and his heir, the Inca Empire was thrown into confusion. x In ...

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