Hernanes Cortez
Spanish Conquistitor
The picture above shows the first and last peaceful meeting between the Spanish and the Aztecs were cortez is meeting one of his translaters on the right is moctuzuma and on the left is Cotez
Meeting friends
The Spanish encountered another tribe called the thaxelle who have been at war with the aztecs for 3 years and gave Cortez gold as a tribute and in return Cortez and his new allies defeated the aztecs at Tenotilan there capital
Meeting the Aztecs
In his search for gold Hernan found the Aztec Empire lead by Moctuzuma the second who thinks he is the god Quetzulkultul and makes the mistake of giving him gold silver and other precsios metals
Conquisditors
Here Cortez is wearing his standard Conquisditor armour Conquisditos are handpicked by Queens and Kings but in this case he was picked by Quenn Elizabeth queen of Spain her self and he was choosen to lead expitions to the new land aka the Americas but one was devistating to the natives
The golden Battle
Cortez later fought the aztecs and won do to surpier weapons,armour, and many aztecs died of decieses brought by the newcomes
Here is cortez wereing his casual uniform
5 facts
- Hernan actually was a farmer in Cuba
- full name is Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro
- his children were Martain Cortez the 1 and Martin Cortez the 2
- died at December 2, 1547 at age 61–62
- he sunk his own ship to eliminate the possability of retreat
Coat of arms
Cortez was awarded this coat of arms for defeating the aztecs the eagles represent the Aztecs The olive represents the new world and the building represents his old farm to bring back the past.
And so ends the live of the Conquistitor Hernan Cortez
History has fasinatied for many years and the aztecs were my favorite he was brave smart and quite determined to start a new live in the new land