Herman cortes
By:morgan nichole peden
His history
Born in medellin,spain, to a family of lesser nobility,Cortes chose to pursue a livelihood in the new world.He whent to Hispaiola and later to Cuba,where he received an encomienda and,for a short time,became lacalde (magistrate) of the second spanish town founded on the island. In 1519,he was elected caption of the third expenition to the mainland, an expenition wich he partly founded.