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"Four part series on the discovery of the Americas by the Spanish conquistadors and the subsequent fall of the Aztec and Inca empires."
"Four part series on the discovery of the Americas by the Spanish conquistadors and the subsequent fall of the Aztec and Inca empires."@en
"The three "G"s god,gold, and glory, brought spanish conquistadors to central America. See how their armies decimated the local, formerly mighty civilizations in Mexico and Peru."@en
"Retraces the steps of the sixteenth century Spanish explorers of the Americas. Focuses on such figures as Hernando Cortes, Gonzalo Pizarro and Cabeza de Vaca and the long-term effects of their expeditions to Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil and Florida."
"Part 1. The fall of the Aztecs; the conquest of the Incas. Part 2.The search for El Dorado; All the World is human."
"Michael Wood follows in the footsteps of some of history's greatest Spanish conquistadors, relating the adventures of Hernan Cortes, Francisco and Gonzalo Pizarro, Cabeza de Vaca, and others in Mexico, Peru, the Amazon, and America."@en
"One of history's most fateful chapters and greatest adventures. The exploration of the America's by Spanish soldier-explorers, and the experiences and tragedies they had once there."@en
"The Conquistadors were tough Spanish peasants who fled the poverty of Estremadura to chase distant dreams of land and gold. Their leaders, notably Hernando Cortés in Mexico and Francisco Pizarro in Peru, were still more remarkable men whose vision and courage were matched only by their greed and cruelty. In Vol.1, British historian and filmmaker Michael Woods picks up the trail of womaniser and gambler Cortés, who led 500 conquistadors in the 1519-21 conquest of the Aztec empire. Beating his own way over the snow-capped mountains of Mexico, Wood asks how a small band of Spanish adventurers led by a man with no military training was ever able to overthrow an empire of millions. Piecing together the climax to the tale in modern-day Mexico City, Wood offers a vivid portrait of the final battle between the Spanish and Aztec armies - a battle which changed the course of history. Vol.2 looks at the six years after the fall of Mexico and the conquistador Francisco Pizarro's explorations which took him south of the equator for the first time. There he uncovered a civilisation which had grown up completely unknown to the outside world. Michael Wood follows Pizarro's daring march into the then uncharted territories of Peru. In Vol.3, Michael Wood, starting at Quito, Ecuador, tells the story of the Conquistadors' search for the mythical land of El Dorado. In 1541, inspired by the legend of El Dorado, Gonzalo Pizarro embarked on an epic journey which would take 16 months and cost countless lives. Following its route across the Andes, we travel with Wood through the rainforests of Ecuador and by raft down the Amazon into Brazil in the footsteps of the Conquistadors who first discovered and sailed the greatest river on earth. In Vol.4, Michael Woods follows the trail of Cabeza de Vaca, a member of the expedition to Florida, one of the most disastrous of the conquistadors and yet one of the great epic stories of the history of the Americas.0000."@en