LoginConquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
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In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day.
It was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico, determined not only to expand the Spanish empire but to convert the natives to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in carrying out his intentions by virtually
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Manufacturer: Bantam
Release date: 28 July 2009
ISBN-10 : 0553384716 | ISBN-13: 9780553384710
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Release date: 28 July 2009
ISBN-10 : 0553384716 | ISBN-13: 9780553384710
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