{"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 Tlaxcalan After the Siege: Allies, Settlers, and the Cost of Conquest","slug":"the-tlaxcalan-after-the-siege-allies-settlers-and-the-cost-of-conquest","published_at":"2026-06-24T02:50:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conquistadors-exploration-greed-and-destruction-fexingo-history-7864470/the-tlaxcalan-after-the-siege-allies-settlers-and-the-cost-of-conquest","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-0114.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/history/the-conquistadors/episode-0114.mp3","summary":"The Tlaxcalans were indispensable to Cortés's victory, but what happened to them after Tenochtitlan fell? This episode follows the Tlaxcalan allies through the later decades of the 16th century, as they received encomiendas and privileges from the Spanish crown — while also becoming instruments of colonial expansion into the north. We look at the Tlaxcalan settlements in San Miguel de Allende, the Chichimeca frontier, and the bitter irony of their own descendants being drawn into the same systems of tribute and labor they helped impose. Drawing on the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, indigenous legal petitions, and the Relaciones Geográficas, we explore how the Tlaxcalans navigated their new place in the colonial order — as conquerors, as subjects, and as a people whose alliance bought survival but not equality. #Tlaxcala #TlaxcalanAllies #ConquestOfMexico #ColonialMexico #LienzoDeTlaxcala #ChichimecaWar #SanMiguelDeAllende #Encomienda #IndigenousAgency #Cortés #Mesoamerica #NahuaHistory #RelacionesGeográficas #16thCentury #ColonialSettlers #MexicanHistory #History #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"The Tlaxcalans were indispensable to Cortés's victory, but what happened to them after Tenochtitlan fell? This episode follows the Tlaxcalan allies throug…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":521,"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-tlaxcalan-after-the-siege-allies-settlers-and-the-cost-of-conquest/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-tlaxcalan-after-the-siege-allies-settlers-and-the-cost-of-conquest.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}