The conquistadors, believing they held considerable military and technological superiority over these cultures, attacked and destroyed the Aztecs in 1521 and the Incas in 1532.

认为自己拥有军事和科技优势的西班牙征服者，于1521年灭掉了阿兹·特克，又于1532年灭掉了印加。

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The Spanish conquistadors declared coca a tool of the devil, until they saw how it improved the work rate of the Indians they sent down the mines.

西班牙征服者曾宣称古柯叶是恶魔的化身，直到他们了解古柯叶提高了印地安人在地下矿坑的工作效率。

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The capital of the great Aztec empire， which eventually morphed into today’s Mexico City， had about 300，000 inhabitants when Spanish conquistadors arrived in 1521.

特诺奇蒂特兰在历史上曾是伟大的阿兹特克帝国（即现在的墨西哥城）的首都。 1521年西班牙征服者到达该地时，这里曾有大约30万人口。

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She explains that the Tainos greeted Christopher Columbus when he landed in the New World in 1492, but the Spanish conquistadors who followed him decimated the tribe.

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Romantics like to think of them as a direct historical link to the Spanish Barb, released in the south-west during the 1500s by the conquistadors.

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This small braying lot was to produce the mules that the conquistadors rode across two continents, their offspring arriving in Mexico ten years after the defeat of the Aztecs.

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