NEW EDIT: After reading three giant history books on the subject, I take back my previous edit. My original claims were correct.
Could you edit this comment to add which three books you’re referring to?
“The Conquest of Mexico and the Conquest of Peru”“1493”and… the one about Afonso I forget the title… it might have been this History of Portugal : Marques, Antonio Henrique R. de Oliveira : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive or this https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&tag=NYTBSREV-20&field-keywords=Conquerors%3A+How+Portugal+Forged+the+First+Global+Empire+Roger+CrowleyI also ended up reading “1491” and “1492.”
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Could you edit this comment to add which three books you’re referring to?
“The Conquest of Mexico and the Conquest of Peru”
“1493”
and… the one about Afonso I forget the title… it might have been this History of Portugal : Marques, Antonio Henrique R. de Oliveira : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive or this https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&tag=NYTBSREV-20&field-keywords=Conquerors%3A+How+Portugal+Forged+the+First+Global+Empire+Roger+Crowley
I also ended up reading “1491” and “1492.”