Conquistadors

Beloved historian Michael Wood recounts the adventures of the great Spanish conquistadors whose encounters with the Americas changed the modern world -- and all but obliterated the mighty Aztec and Incan empires. Literally walking in the footsteps of the conquerors Cortez, Pizarro, de Vaca and others, Wood examines the effects of the conquistadors' bloody campaigns, and communes with modern descendants of the Aztecs and the Incas. MORE