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Bookmark or Share- Hernán Cortés - World History EncyclopediaHernán Cortés (1485-1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico from 1519. Taking the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in...
- Hernán Cortés ‑ Biography, Facts & Accomplishments - HISTORYSpanish conquistador Hernán Cortés (1485‑1547) traveled to Mexico in 1519, where he eventually overthrew the Aztec empire and helped build Mexico City.
- Hernan Cortes | Expeditions, Biography, & Facts | BritannicaHernan Cortes, Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire (1519–21) and won Mexico for the crown of Spain. The key to his conquests lay in the political crisis within the Aztec empire; Cortes was able to leverage the resentment of many of the subject peoples who had to pay tribute to the Aztecs.
- Hernán Cortés - WikipediaEarly life. Weiditz's depiction of Cortés in 1529. Copy of a portrait of Cortés dated to the year 1525. Cortés was born in 1485 in the town of Medellín, then a village in the Kingdom of Castile, now a municipality of the modern-day province of Badajoz in Extremadura, Spain.
- How Hernán Cortés Conquered the Aztec Empire | HISTORYHow Hernán Cortés Conquered the Aztec Empire. Tenochtitlán, the capital city of the Aztec Empire, flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521—but was defeated less than two years after the arrival ...
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