Juana Azurduy De Padilla didn't just fight to free her people. This Bolivian warrior woman rode into battle while pregnant.
Atahualpa spent his life dominating anyone who stood in his path to power, including his family. But his grand plan of ascendancy didn't account for the arrival of the greedy and bloodthirsty new occupants of the Americas.
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