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Hernán Cortés was a 16th century Spanish conquistador who started the conquest of the Aztec civilization.
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- Full name: Hernándo Cortés de Monroy Pizarro
- Born: 1485
- Birthplace: Medellín, Extremadura, Spain
- Studied law at the University of Salamanca
- Served under the Governor of Cuba
- Conquered 5 million Aztecs with less than 1000 soldiers
- Founded La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, known today as Veracruz
- Allegedly mistaken for Aztec god Quetzalcoatl
- Died: December 2, 1547
- Related to Francisco Pizarro who conquered the Incas
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Timeline
- 1503: First arrives in the "New World" from Spain
- 1510: Joins an expedition to conquer Cuba, soon appointed mayor of Santiago
- 1519: Commands expedition to interior of Mexico
- 1521: Captures Aztec leader Cuauhtemoc
- 1521-1524: Self-governs Mexico
- 1528: Returns to Spain where he was awarded the noble title "Marquis of the Oaxaca Valley"
- 1530: Returns to Mexico
- 1547: Dies in Seville, Spain
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@EricRosenLA As for who first brought the tomato to Europe, I think it is debated whether it was Hernan Cortes or Christopher Columbus.
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acaba de terminar -insomnio mediante- "Cartas de relación" de Hernán Cortés. #libros
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Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs - $18.00
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures. “I and my companio...
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Letters from Mexico - $20.00
Hernán Cortés's Cartas de Relacíon, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortés's journey to...
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Hernán Cortés's Cartas de Relacíon, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortés's journey to...
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Hernan Cortes, Inventor de Mexico - $15.95
Miralles intenta reconstruir todos los aspectos de la vida de Cortés a partir de una información copiosísima. No hay asunto que quede en la sombra hasta donde es posible averiguar la verdad histórica con los documentos disponibles: desde el...
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Hernan Cortes Timeline
- 1485: Born in Medellin, Extremadura, in Castile
- 1499: Attends the University of Salamanca
- 1501: Returns home
- 1504: Joins an expedition to Santo Domingo; becomes a citizen of Azuza
- 1506: Participates in the conquest of Hispaniola and Cuba
- 1519: Commander of an expedition to find the legendary Aztec Empire
- 1521: Claims Tenochtitlan for Spain
- 1522: Given the title of Captain General and Governor of New Spain
- 1524: Explores Honduras
- 1528: Recalled to Spain; awarded the title "Marques del Valle de Oaxaca"
- 1530: Returns to Mexico, but divested of his civil rank; wife, Catalina, dies
- 1536: Discovers the Baja California peninsula
- 1539: Returns to Spain
- 1541: Joins Algiers expedition
- 1547: Dies December 2, in Castilleja de la Cuesta of pleurisy
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