Book Description
Illustrates the role Hernan Cortes played in the expansion of the Spanish Empire and its conquest of the Aztecs during the sixteenth century.
Author : Charles Flowers
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
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Illustrates the role Hernan Cortes played in the expansion of the Spanish Empire and its conquest of the Aztecs during the sixteenth century.
Author : Jon Manchip White
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Mexico
ISBN :
Parallels the historical backgrounds and human motivations of the Spaniards and Aztecs, as they grapple in the life-and-death battle for the Aztec Empire.
Author : Matthew Restall
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0062427288
A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas—has long been the symbol of Cortés’s bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere. But is this really what happened? In a departure from traditional tellings, When Montezuma Met Cortés uses “the Meeting”—as Restall dubs their first encounter—as the entry point into a comprehensive reevaluation of both Cortés and Montezuma. Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts by conquistadors and Aztecs alike, Restall explores Cortés’s and Montezuma’s posthumous reputations, their achievements and failures, and the worlds in which they lived—leading, step by step, to a dramatic inversion of the old story. As Restall takes us through this sweeping, revisionist account of a pivotal moment in modern civilization, he calls into question our view of the history of the Americas, and, indeed, of history itself.
Author : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Mexico
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Author : Carl R. Green
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781598450996
A look at the life of Spanish conquistador Hernâan Cortâes, including his first voyages to the New World, his conquering of the Aztec Empire, and his legacy in world history.
Author : Prescott
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 1844
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Author : Hugh Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1439127255
Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history. Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits of the legendary opponents, Montezuma and Cortés. Conquest is an essential work of history from one of our most gifted historians.
Author : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 1850
Category :
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Author : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 1843
Category :
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Author : William Hickling Prescott
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Mexico
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