Conquistador : Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the last stand of the Aztecs / Buddy Levy.
In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico with a roughshod crew of adventurers and the intent to expand the Spanish empire. Along the way, this brash and roguish conquistador schemed to convert the native inhabitants to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. In Tenochtitlán, the C...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bantam Books,
2008.
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| Physical Description: | x, 429 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |