1/ so this morning I was ruminating on Cortez and how he burned his ships behind him to motivate his men... and I was thinking about the complexity of building a ship (even 16th century ships were super high tech, and in an "I, Pencil" sense, no one person knew how to make one).
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I would recommend Conquest by Hugh Thomas, it does a nice job of showing how calculated Cortez was at every step and it has decent psychology of Moctezuma.
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