{"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 Tarascan Empire: Purépecha Resistance to the Aztecs and Spanish","slug":"the-tarascan-empire-pur-pecha-resistance-to-the-aztecs-and-spanish","published_at":"2026-05-29T14:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conquistadors-exploration-greed-and-destruction-fexingo-history-7864470/the-tarascan-empire-pur-pecha-resistance-to-the-aztecs-and-spanish","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-0064.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/history/the-conquistadors/episode-0064.mp3","summary":"While the Aztec Empire fell to Cortés in 1521, the Tarascans of Michoacán held out for decades. This episode explores how the Purépecha people built a centralized state that rivaled Tenochtitlan, resisted Aztec expansion, and then faced the Spanish under the brutal Nuño de Guzmán. We trace the rise of the cazonci rulers, the unique yácata pyramids of Tzintzuntzan, and the final rebellion of Tangáxuan II. Discover why the Tarascans were among the last indigenous powers to fall in Mesoamerica. #TarascanEmpire #Purepecha #Michoacan #Tzintzuntzan #TangaxuanII #NunodeGuzman #Cazonci #Yacatas #Mesopotamia #Aztecs #SpanishConquest #Mesoamerica #IndigenousResistance #ColonialMexico #Archeology #History #FexingoHistory #MexicanHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"While the Aztec Empire fell to Cortés in 1521, the Tarascans of Michoacán held out for decades. This episode explores how the Purépecha people built a cen…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":361,"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-tarascan-empire-pur-pecha-resistance-to-the-aztecs-and-spanish/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-tarascan-empire-pur-pecha-resistance-to-the-aztecs-and-spanish.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}