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… numbers, advanced Spanish weaponry ultimately gave them the upper hand. With firearms and steel blades at his disposal, just one Spaniard might annihilate dozens or even hundreds of opponents: “On a sudden, they speared and thrust people into shreds,” wrote one indigenous chronicler, having witnessed the terrifying impact of European arms. “Others were beheaded in one swipe… Others tried to run in vain from the butchery, their innards falling from them and entangling their very feet.”
About Cortez
Throughout his career, Cortés’s personal life held a selfish, manipulative streak. In 1514 he married a young Spanish woman named …

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https://www.theatlantic.com/membership/archive/2017/09/how-germany-overcame-the-refugee-crisis/538851/
A refugee crisis that started as a humanitarian challenge has become a question about long-term assimilation in Germany, as Traub has written, just like it has in other European countries. The task at hand is to integrate “an enormous number of people who are, by and large, Muslim in a place that is, of course, chiefly Christian; who are pious in a place that is chiefly secular; and who, on average, are poorly educated in a place where the economy depends increasingly on …

… Deal rules as an unconstitutional seizures of power.
In 1938, Arnold became the head of the antitrust division at the Department of Justice. He took a specific approach to bringing law and order back to the business community, which was to turn antitrust from a mere business problem to be handled by lawyers into a significant social stigma for executives. He would actually indict the executives themselves, fingerprinting them as common criminals. Arnold believed that “the only thing that would make businessmen behave was the threat of indictment.” And lo and behold, when he did so, all of a sudden …