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I am just a random student on the internet who loves reading, especially about ancient history and classics. The purpose of my videos is to make classics and ancient history interesting and accessible to everyone. I am not a professional or qualified educator, “expert”, historian or classicist. However, I ensure that all the information I use in my video scripts has been collated from numerous credible sources. Additionally, I am dyslexic, and I will mispronounce words. This does not stem from willful ignorance, and I do make an effort to research how to pronounce words before I start filming, but I often misread my phonetic spelling. In light of this, please do not rely on my video for an authoritative or reliable source of how to pronounce certain words.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:20 How the Legend Started
10:50 The Murderous Expedition of Francisco Pizarro
14:45 Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Discovers Gold in a Lake
19:55 Why were the Germans in South America?
21:12 Why were the Spanish in South America?
24:02 The Brutal Ambrosius Ehinger
29:25 The Madman: Lope de Aguirre

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