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Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca [a] [b] (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
However, fighting did not completely come to a halt in the ensuing years. In 1546, Spanish authorities discovered silver in the Zacatecas region and established mining settlements in Chichimeca territory which altered the terrain and the Chichimeca traditional way of life. The Chichimeca resisted the intrusions on their ancestral lands by ...
The Cortesian documents are a compilation by José Luis Martínez of handwritten historical texts related to Hernán Cortés.The documents are divided into three parts: ...
[6] [51] They discovered the statue of Tziminchác, a stone horse depicted sitting on its hips, in the largest temple. [22] [52] The missionaries were astonished, as there were no horses in the region, [53] and the locals had only seen one through the statue. [49] They learned about Morzillo's origins and the types of offerings made to him ...
He tortured priests and nobles and discovered that the Aztecs were planning a revolt. Unable to assert control over events, he sequestered Moctezuma and increased the guards around the tlatoani. [21] By the day of the festival, twenty days after Cortés' departure, [22] the Aztecs had gathered on the Patio of Dances. Alvarado had sixty of his ...
Route of the 1539 voyage by Francisco de Ulloa from (Acapulco) along the west coast of Mexico. Francisco de Ulloa (pronounced [fɾanˈθisko ðe wˈʎoa]) (died 1540) was a Spanish explorer who explored the west coast of present-day Mexico and the Baja California Peninsula under the commission of Hernán Cortés.
The same is true for Nestor Cortes Jr. and his cutter. Like Holmes and the fall-off-the-table sinker, Cortes has started throwing his cutter much more often. Last year, it came out on 23.6% of his ...
The evangelization of Mexico. Spanish conquerors saw it as their right and their duty to convert indigenous populations to Catholicism. Because Catholicism had played such an important role in the Reconquista (Catholic reconquest) of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims, the Catholic Church in essence became another arm of the Spanish government, since the crown was granted sweeping powers ...