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	Hernán Cortés - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cortés asked for more gifts of gold as a vassal of Charles V. He also demanded that the two large idols be removed from the main temple pyramid in the city, the human blood scrubbed off, and shrines to the Virgin Mary and St.
		Cortés was born in Medellín, Extremadura province, in the Kingdom of Castile in Spain, the only child of Martín Cortés and Catalina Pizarro Altamirano.
		Cortés learned that he was suspected of being Quetzalcoatl or an emissary of Quetzalcoatl, a legendary man-god who was predicted to one day return to reclaim his city in a One-Reed year on the cyclical calendar.
	www.chicagoridge.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hern%e1n_Cort%e9s (2506 words)

	Hernán Cortés - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cortes asked for more gifts of gold as a vassal of Charles V. He also demanded that the two large idols be removed from the main temple pyramid in the city, the human blood scrubbed off, and shrines to the Virgin Mary and St.
		Cortés was born in Medellín, in the province of Extremadura, in the Kingdom of Castile in Spain in 1485, the only child of Martín Cortés and Catalina Pizarro Altamirano.
		Cortés in his letters claims to have learned that he was suspected of being Quetzalcoatl or an emissary of Quetzalcoatl, a legendary man-god that controlled lightning who was predicted to one day return to reclaim his city in a One-Reed year on the cyclical calendar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hernan_Cortez (2904 words)

	MSN Encarta - Hernan Cortes
		Cortés took numerous captives, one of whom, Malinche (baptized Marina), became his mistress; out of loyalty to him she acted as the interpreter, guide, and counselor for the Spaniards.
		Cortés sailed along the coast of Yucatán and in March 1519 landed in Mexico, subjugating the town of Tabasco.
		Some accounts say that the Aztecs may have believed Cortés was Quetzalcoatl, a legendary god-king who was light-skinned and bearded and, according to a prophecy, was expected to return from the east.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761561161 (1119 words)

	Cortes, Hernan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Cortés, learning that the Aztec empire of Montezuma was honeycombed with dissension, assumed the role of deliverer and rallied the coastal Totonacs to his standard; he also began negotiations with Montezuma.
		In 1524–26, Cortés himself went to Honduras, killing Cuauht&, the Aztec emperor, in the course of the expedition.
		Cortés went (1504) first to Hispaniola and later (1511) accompanied Diego de Velázquez to Cuba.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/Cortes-H.html (534 words)

	HISTORY OF MEXICO - AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND HERNAN CORTES - BY JIM TUCK IN MEXICO CONNECT
		Hernán Cortés was born in 1485 at Medellín, in the southwestern Spanish province of Estremadura.
		Cortés was once quoted as saying that it was "more difficult to contend against (his) own countrymen than against the Aztecs." We recall the difficulties he had with Governor Diego Velázquez.
		Cortés, temporarily distracted by one of her sisters, finally married Catalina and thus secured both the good will of her family and of Velázquez.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/history/jtuck/jtcortes.html (1233 words)

	European Voyages of Exploration: Aztec Empire
		Cortés' management of Spanish possessions in the Americas ensured that, by 1540, Mexico City (built on the ruins of Tenochtitlán) was the metropolis of Spanish America.
		Cortés did not hurt his own cause when he described the wealth of the Aztecs and claimed that he wanted to conquer the territory in the name of Christianity and the Spanish Crown.
		Cortés' action was one of the single largest additions of land and treasure to the Spanish Empire ever secured by an individual.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/aztec.html (1055 words)

	Hernando Cortes
		Cortes sent the captured treasures back to Spain with the declaration that all of his actions had been in the name of the Spanish crown rather than for personal gain.
		Cortes had begun to gather the treasures of his conquest when word reached him that a Spanish army under Panfilo de Narvaez had landed at Vera Cruz with orders from Velazquez to arrest him because of his insubordination in exceeding his orders.
		Cortes led another expedition into Honduras in 1524, but because various members of the Spanish court continued to fear his ambitions, the king withdrew his governorship in 1528 and ordered him home to Spain.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /military/cortes.html (1046 words)

	Hernan Cortes . How Like conquering an empire with 5 hundred men and cleverness. - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
		Hernan Cortes was born in the village of Medellin in Extremadura, Spain, in 1485.
		Cortes was overjoyed that he wa s asked to be the commander of the expedition to find the Aztec cities.
		Cortes stay ed in camp for five days to allow his wounded soldiers to recover and to get their weapons in order.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?p=347580 (1072 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hernando Cortes
		Cortés held the country and its resources, and controlled a body of officers and men who had, in 1520, expressed to the emperor in writing their admiration for their captain, and dwelt in the strongest terms on the obligations under which his achievements had placed the mother country.
		In this letter Cortés, besides recalling in a rather abrupt manner that the conquest of Mexico was due to him alone, deliberately acknowledges his disobedience in terms which could not fail to create a most unfavourable impression.
		The seizure itself appears as an act of singular daring, and Cortés and his men were astonished at the ease with which it was executed, and the lack of opposition on the part of the Indians; but they did not know that their prisoner was of so little importance.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04397a.htm (2890 words)

	National Review: Like Columbus. (Hernan Cortes) @ HighBeam Research
		Cortes was born in the remote province of Extremadura, whence he set out for the Indies at the age of 19.
		Cortes returned at length to Spain and an uncertain place at the court of the Emperor Charles V, at whose feet he had laid such stupendous riches and power.
		Cortes became a myth as well as a historic personage, and the conflict and confusion between the two have shrouded Mexican history ever since.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:4113440&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (266 words)

	Ian Glenn - Hum 7 - Intro to Humanities. Project 3a
		Cortés felt that he was justified in oppressing the Aztec empire, and did not feel any moral wrong doing.
		Cortés had heard stories from other explorers about the wealth of gold the native inhabitants possessed.
		When I first started researching this topic the information that I found amazed me. Cortés was involved in much of the history of this time period and was very influential.
	home.earthlink.net /~ian.glenn/HUM7/project3a.htm (498 words)

	Chapter Three
		Cortés, not about to be thwarted, persuaded the sailors and soldiers who had signed on with the expedition to join him in defying the governor.
		Cortés sailed from Cuba with a fleet of 11 vessels, with 700 Spaniards, 18 horses, and a few artillery pieces.
		In 1525 Cortés married her off to a Spanish knight, giving her a large estate in her native province as a dowry.
	www.jsri.msu.edu /museum/pubs/MexAmHist/chapter3.html (4522 words)

	Cortes and The Spanish
		Hernan (also Hernando or Fernando) Cortes was born in Medellin, Extramadura, in Spain in 1485 to a family of minor nobility.
		Hernan Cortes was one of the Spanish conquerors during the 16th century who subjugated the Aztec, Maya, Inca, and other Indian peoples.
		In the year 1519 Hernan Cortes sailed all the way from Cuba, landing in Mexico and making his way to the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán.
	staff.esuhsd.org /~balochie/studentprojects/conqmex (562 words)

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		Hernan Cortes, was the explorer in the New World, which all future conquistadors hoped to model in terms of his success in subduing the natives and gaining massive wealth for both himself and his country.
		Cortes was in the Flagship of the fleet, which is usually at the front, but due to bad weather, he was the last one to arrive on the Island of Cozumel.
		Cortes and his cavalry had previously rode behind the enemy force, and in the middle of the battle, he attacked from behind, while his infantry hit the force head on.
	bama.ua.edu /~baile020/sppaper3.htm (4928 words)

	Hernan Cortez: Biography of Hernan Cortez
		CORTEZ, HERNAN, the conqueror of Mexico, was born in 1485, at Medillin, a village of Estremadura, Spain.
		In 1540, he came again to Spain, but was coldly received at Court, from which he soon retired, and died at Seville, December 1547.
	www.sacklunch.net /biography/C/HernanCortez.html (499 words)

	Mexico History - THE SPANISH CONQUEST (1519-1521)
		Cortés wasted no time in staking a claim for God and King, ceremoniously founding a settlement on the coast that he christened Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, in reference to the fleet's arrival on Good Friday to what he believed to be a vast land of plenty.
		In May Cortés began his final assault on Tenochtitlán, bearing down from every direction, with separate divisions assigned to each of the city's three causeways and the flotilla moving in by water.
		There Cortés ransomed fellow Spaniard Gerónimo de Aguilar who had been forced to live among the Mayas after surviving a 1511 shipwreck during a prior expedition.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/dpalfrey/dpconquest.html (1694 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine The Fall of Moctezuma 1519 Montezuma Aztec Hernan Hernando Cortes omens Spanish conquistador imperialism
		Cortés told the Aztecs that he and his men "suffered from a disease of the heart which is only cured by gold." Pedro de Cieza de León was inspired to sail to Peru after seeing the Inca gold unloaded in Seville.
		Cortés arrived at Tenochtitlán after nine months of fighting indigenous people and trudging across rough country, on up to the high Mexican plateau.
		Cortés placed the Aztec emperor under house arrest and attempted to rule the Aztecs through the emperor.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /aztecs_and_cortes.html (2779 words)

	Hernan Cort?
		Cortes: Yes, I know that the natives of Mexico had an advanced culture.
		Cortes: Sí, sé que los nativos de México tienen una cultura avanzada.
		Cortes: Yes I founded a town called Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz.
	www.bergen.org /AAST/Projects/Cortes/cortes.html (257 words)

	WU Libraries, Special Collections, Online Exhibitions: Terra Incognita
		Cortes was accompanied with 600 Spaniards, 200 native Cubans, horses, and armed cannons, muskets, and crossbows.
		Cortes was forced to lead his troops and allies out of the city.
		Herman Cortes arrived in the West Indies in 1504, traveled on to Cuba in 1511 and marched into the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) in 1519.
	library.wustl.edu /units/spec/exhibits/terra/mexico.html (556 words)

	PBS VIDEOdatabase of America's History and Culture -- Chapters
		Cortes went on to found a hospital and later was showered with honors by the King of Spain.
		Searching for a land of gold, Cortes was continually led toward a land called "Mexico." When an ambassador from the ruler of Mexico told Cortes they had gold, their fate was sealed.
		Cortes arrived the very year the prophesy said the god would return.
	pbsvideodb.pbs.org /programs/all_chapters.asp?item_id=26097 (555 words)

	The Spanish Conquest of Mexico (1519-1521 A.D.)
		Cortés arrives to find his men under siege in their quarters and has to fight his way back into the city, only to be trapped himself.
		La Malinche, Cortés is able to form alliances with the indigenous enemies of the Aztecs (such as the Tlaxcalans).
		Cortés' chief obstacle in conquering the Aztecs is Moctezuma II, their emperor.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Square/3913/mexico/history/conquest.html (522 words)

	Working Dogs Book Store - Letters from Mexico (Hernan Cortes , Anthony Pagden)
		Cortes is a man driven by adventure and the lure of wealth in the new lands.
		At one point in the book the fighting is so brutal that Cortes is literally hacking the Aztec warroirs to death as steel meets wood in a no contest.Montezouma is perhaps the most tagic figure given that he is a child not a leader.
		The first letter, not written by Cortes, seems to have been written with Cortes leaning over the writer's shoulder, for it fits in perfectly with the four Cortes letters, both in sequence and in theme.
	www.workingdogs.com /bookstore/us/product/0300090943.htm (735 words)

	American Timeline: European Exploration; Explorers, Hernando Cortez
		On February 19, 1519, Cortes with a force of 600 men few and 10 field pieces, set sail from Cuba despite the cancellation of his commission by Velazquez, who had become suspicious of Cortes once he was in a position to establish himself independently.
		Cortes studied law at the University of Salamanca but cut short his university career in 1501 and decided to try his fortune in the New World.
		Many of Cortes' men died in the battle and most of the soldiers were wounded.
	www.fcps.k12.va.us /OakViewES/harris/97-98/america/exploration/cortez.html (384 words)

	Hernan Cortes, marquis del Valle de Oaxaca -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		More results on "Hernan Cortes, marquis del Valle de Oaxaca" when you join.
		Cortés was the son of Martín Cortés de Monroy and of Doña Catalina Pizarro Altamarino—names of ancient lineage.
		Cortés also spelled Cortéz Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire (1519–21) and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9026431 (826 words)

	Hernan Cortes
		Hernando Cortes was born in the village of Medellin in Entremedura, Spain, in 1485.
		Hernando Cortes was born in Spain in the year 1485.
		In the year 1519 Hernan Cortes sailed all the way from Cuba, landing in Mexico and making his way to the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán...
	www.cybersleuth-kids.com /sleuth/History/Explorers/Hernan_Cortes (242 words)

	Hernando cortes - European Voyages of Exploration: Aztec Empire
		The Genealogy of MexicoThe Genealogy of Hernando Cortes
		Hernan Cortés, Letters — available as Letters from Mexico translated by Anthony Hernando Cortes on the Web — web directory with thumbnail galleries
		Hernan Cortés, Letters — available as Letters from Mexico translated by Anthony Hernando Cortes on the Web (http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/cortes/)
	torrie.recommendlist.com /rl/torrie-hernando-cortes.htm (203 words)

	The Border 1519-1521 Hernan Cortes Arrives in Mexico
		Cortes reprimanded the general: it was impetuous aggression like this that could bring their expedition to a disastrous and quick end.
		Cortes enlisted the man; his knowledge of Maya would be invaluable to the explorer.
		Cortes was unaware of the spiritual implications that surrounded his expedition.
	www.pbs.org /kpbs/theborder/history/timeline/1.html (909 words)

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		Cortes led an army to conquer the Aztecs.
		Montezuma treated Cortes so well because he thought that Cortes was the great Aztec god Quetzalcoatl1.
		Finally, Cortes and his army came to a land with beautiful blue lakes.
	usa.russiansabroad.com /country_page.aspx?page=35 (407 words)

	Hernan Cortes
		The response of King Moctezuma to the European, Hernan Cortez, in 1519 as the latter entered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
		Illustrated explanation of Cortes' role in the conquest of the Aztec empire.
		An attempt to glorify Cortes, despite his conquest of the Aztecs.
	www.ontalink.com /archaeology/aztecs/hernan_cortes.html (131 words)

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