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Butterfly Effect
Season 2 · Episode 5
Cortés, in the heart of Aztec empire
0.025mNovember 5, 2017
The encounter between the conquistador and opportunist Hernan Cortés and the indigenous peoples of Central America is one of history's tragic tales of greed conflict imperial weakness and superior weaponry.
Episodes
- Episode 1Dunkirk, resist at all costs
- Episode 2Aral, a sea for cotton
- Episode 3Cuba, nuclear standoff
- Episode 4Constantinople, from an empire to another
- Episode 5Cortés, in the heart of Aztec empire
- Episode 6The Gold Rush, for a fistful of nuggets
- Episode 7Black Death, the invisible enemy
- Episode 8The Fronde
- Episode 9Al Capone, child of prohibition
- Episode 10The Olympic Games, a mirror to society
- Episode 11Gutenberg, visionary inventor
- Episode 12The Suffragettes, battle for the ballot box
- Episode 13The fall of Quebec, France loses America