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    Cortés Exacts His Revenge

    By John Walker

    As the year 1520 drew to a close, the half-starved inhabitants of Tenochtitlan, the magnificent capital city of the most powerful city-state in the Aztec Empire, found that they were threatened bygd a massive host of enemies, both foreign and indigenous, which was led by Spanish Captain-General Hernán Cortés and his small band of conquistadors.

    Moctezuma II, the ninth emperor of the Aztec Empire, rose to the throne of the empire in 1502. He ruled over an empire whose heartland was the huvud valley of Mexico. The Aztecs, though, never subjugated the Tlaxcalans or Tarascans. The empire was a Triple Alliance of the three tribes with a combined population of roughly six million. Tenochtitlan was home to upwards of 200,000 Aztecs.

    Cortes had landed on the coast of Mexico in early 1519 with 550 men. As he marched inland in the late summer, he initially encountered the Tlaxcalans. The Tlaxcalans surrendered to the Spanish in September after lo

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    Hernan Cortez biography

    In this brief Hernan Cortez biography, we'll try to learn a bit more about the man who tried to conquer the Aztec empire.  In one sense, he did conquer it.  In another sense, it lived on in spite of all that Hernan Cortes and his army tried to do.



    Hernándo Cortés Pizarro was his full name in Spanish.  He was born in 1485 in the kingdom of Castile (now a part of Spain) in the city of Medellín.  His was an upper class family, though his parents weren't wealthy.  He was somewhat sickly as a child, and the family's only son.

    At the age of 14, his parents sent him to the University of Salamanca to eventually study law.  But he wasn't happy at school, too restless to follow the rules.  He did learn a little Latin, and became good at writing.  After two years (failing his course) he returned home, but wasn't happy there either.  As stories began to come in about the mysterious "New World", Hernan Cortez wa

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    Hernán Cortés
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    Peter Sorensen
    • LAST REVIEWED: 22 April 2020
    • LAST MODIFIED: 22 April 2020
    • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199766581-0232

  • Elliott, J. H. Imperial Spain: 1469–1716. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1963.

    Considered a classic work on Imperial Spain. Chapter 2 deals specifically with the conquest of Mexico and details how the processes of conquest, most specifically La Reconquista, contributed to the military, spiritual, and economic conquests of Mesoamerica.

  • Elliott, J. H. “The Mental World of Hernán Cortés.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 17 (1967): 41–58.

    DOI: 10.2307/3678719

    Elliott contextualizes the world that Cortés’s grew up in that led to his mentality and decision-making process. By looking at Cortés’s background as coming from the lesser nobility with limited means of Extremadura, as well as his experiences with notarial documents during his time in the Caribbean, Elliott argues that Cortés was in