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Hernán(o) Cortés de Monroy Pizarro, 1st Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca (1485–December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who initiated the conquest of the Aztec Empire on behalf of Charles V, king of Castile and Holy Roman Emperor, in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Trivia about hernando cortez

  • He's credited with introducing chocolate to Spain after consuming it at the court of Montezuma
  • Spontini's opera about this adventurer's conquest of Mexico premiered in 1809
  • This defeater of Montezuma reached Mexico in 1519 & some historians believe he was mistaken for a god
  • In 1522 he wrote Charles that the Aztecs "said that by no means would they give themselves up"
  • In 1529 this conqueror of the Aztecs was made Marques Del Valle de Oaxaca by Charles V
  • In the 16th C. he founded Villa Rica de Veracruz, the site of present day Veracruz
  • In 1519 he sailed from Cuba to conquer the Aztec empire
  • When this man reached Mexico in 1519, Montezuma mistook him for the god Quetzalcoatl
  • This Spaniard who conquered Mexico previously had been mayor of Santiago, Cuba
  • In 1519 he explored Mexico & won allies among Indians who were subservient to the Aztecs
  • When this conquistador arrived in Mexico in 1519, Aztecs believed he was the god Quetzalcoatl
  • Dona Marina, who was this man's mistress & interpreter, has been called the betrayer of the Aztecs

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