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Referenced when discussing the incident where Columbus gave a captured indigenous girl to Miguel Cuneo. The historian Hugh Thomas (Lord Thomas) described Cuneo's account as 'the first account of lovemaking in the new world' - a characterization the hosts note would not be written today, as it would now be recognized as describing rape.

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Referenced as a source about the Spanish conquests. The hosts mention that Hugh Thomas notes in this book that if Columbus had not agreed to change course, they would have landed on Florida instead of the Bahamas.

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Referenced when discussing Columbus presenting his documents to the Spanish monarchs, with the author imagining 'the scene of Columbus getting out these tattered documents that he's been exhibiting around Europe'