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## Abstract Five hundred years ago, a flotilla landed on the coast of Yucatán under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés. While the official goal of the expedition was to explore and to expand the Christian faith, everyone involved knew that it was primarily about gold and the hunt for slaves. That a few hundred Spaniards destroyed the Aztec empire—and its highly developed culture—is an old chestnut, because the conquistadors, who had every means to make a profit, did not succeed alone. They encountered groups such as the Tlaxcaltecs, who suffered from Aztec rule and were ready to enter into alliances with the foreigners to overthrow their old enemy. In addition, the conquerors benefited from diseases brought from Europe, which killed hundreds of thousands of locals. Drawing on both Spanish and indigenous sources, this account of the conquest of Mexico from 1519 to 1521 offers a narrative of these events—including the fall of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and the flight of the conquerors—and also represents the individual protagonists on both sides, their backgrounds, their diplomacy, and their struggles. It portrays the tens of thousands of local warriors who

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Author

Stefan H Rinke

Publisher

Oxford University Press USA

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780197552483

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities