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The paper discusses the standard view of the conquest and colonization of Latin America that pervades most explanations of the subject. The paper explains that this standard view holds that the Europeans were able to conquer and colonize Latin America (and much of the rest of the world) because they had superior fire power. The paper discusses how while they certainly did have superior fire power, Crosby (2006) turns accepted thinking on its head when he suggests that there was more to it than merely guns.

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"There is a standard view of the conquest and colonization of Latin America that pervades most explanations of the subject. This standard view basically holds that the Europeans were able to conquer and colonize Latin America (and much of the rest of the world) because they had superior fire power. While they certainly did have superior fire power, Crosby (2006) turns accepted thinking on its head when he suggests that there was more to it than merely guns. He makes the interesting and radical suggestion that perhaps biology played a role - a decisive role. In this way, Crosby (2006) changes our view of the conquest and colonization by portraying it..."

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