{"podcast":{"title":"The Conquistadors: Exploration, Greed, and Destruction — Fexingo History","slug":"the-conquistadors-exploration-greed-and-destruction-fexingo-history-7864470","podcast_index_feed_id":7864470,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/history/the-conquistadors.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/history/the-conquistadors/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/history/the-conquistadors/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":182,"summary":"From the moment Hernán Cortés burned his ships on the Veracruz shore to the fall of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Spanish conquistadors remade the Americas through a volatile mix of courage, cruelty, and greed. Lucas and Luna guide listeners through the brutal collision of two worlds, examining not only the well-known figures—Cortés, Pizarro, Moctezuma, Atahualpa—but also the indigenous allies, enslaved Africans, and forgotten women who shaped the conquest. Each episode dissects a specific campaign or cultural encounter: the siege of Tenochtitlan, the conquest of the Inca Empire, the protracted Maya resistance, and the lesser-known expeditions into Florida and the Amazon. They explore the legal and moral debates of the Valladolid Controversy, the devastating impact of Old World diseases, and the encomienda system that bound native peoples to Spanish lords. The show also confronts the long legacy: how conquest myths were constructed, how indigenous memory survives, and how modern movements grapple with statues, repatriation, and historical memory. This is not a simple story of heroes or villains—it is a search for understanding amid the rubble of empires. Can we truly grasp the scale o…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T06:20:17.143281+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conquistadors-exploration-greed-and-destruction-fexingo-history-7864470"},"episode":{"title":"The First Conquistador: Alonso de Ojeda's Forgotten Voyage","slug":"the-first-conquistador-alonso-de-ojeda-s-forgotten-voyage","published_at":"2026-05-31T14:08:12+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conquistadors-exploration-greed-and-destruction-fexingo-history-7864470/the-first-conquistador-alonso-de-ojeda-s-forgotten-voyage","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conquistadors-exploration-greed-and-destruction-fexingo-history-7864470","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/history/the-conquistadors/episode-0068.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/history/the-conquistadors/episode-0068.mp3","summary":"Before Cortés, before Pizarro, there was Alonso de Ojeda. A brash young hidalgo who sailed with Columbus on his second voyage, then led his own expeditions to the unknown coasts of South America. This episode follows Ojeda's career: from his swashbuckling early days in Seville, to the disastrous founding of San Sebastián de Urabá, to the legal battles that followed his return. We explore his partnership with Juan de la Cosa (the cartographer who owned the first European ship to sight the mainland), his rivalry with Diego de Nicuesa, and the landscape of mangrove swamps and poisoned arrows that swallowed his colony. Plus: the forgotten role of indigenous interpreters and the first smallpox outbreak on the American mainland. A story of ambition, failure, and the brutal learning curve that made later conquests possible. #AlonsoDeOjeda #JuanDeLaCosa #SanSebastianDeUraba #UrabaGulf #Darien #Conquistadors #SpanishConquest #Smallpox #IndigenousInterpreters #Columbus #TierraFirme #NuñezDeBalboa #DiegoDeNicuesa #SantoDomingo #History #FexingoHistory #Exploration #Mesoamerica Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Before Cortés, before Pizarro, there was Alonso de Ojeda. A brash young hidalgo who sailed with Columbus on his second voyage, then led his own expedition…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":579,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-conquistadors-exploration-greed-and-destruction-fexingo-history-7864470/episodes/the-first-conquistador-alonso-de-ojeda-s-forgotten-voyage/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conquistadors-exploration-greed-and-destruction-fexingo-history-7864470/the-first-conquistador-alonso-de-ojeda-s-forgotten-voyage.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}