Cortez

Spaniards who came to the New World were known as conquistadors, Spanish for “conquerors”. Hernando Cortez, one of the most ambitious Spanish conquistadors, left Cuba in 1519 with 500 men, 11 ships, horses, and countless other provisions. The exploratory mission, supported by the governor of Cuba: Diego de Velásquez, soon turned into one of conquest. Driven by the pursuit of gold, glory and god, Cortez was determined to use any means necessary in his desire to conquer one of ancient history’s most prominent

VICTOR CORTEZ (40) a former Marine and survivalist teams up with an advance robot THRASH to stop the ruthless SUPREME COMMANDER from stealing Earth’s magma and then destroying Earth. His initial plan goes wrong and when he’s captured he’s shocked to find that his wife, GINA, who went missing ten years ago is still alive. The Supreme Commander is using her mind. Cortez and Gina are reunited when they are both hooked up to the mind-trapper machine. The Supreme Commander believes that Cortez has a secret

”Pedro come here and I win!“.”Arf” barked Pedro. Uncle Cortez was walking up to the door. Catalina saw him and ran over to him. They embraced each other, and Pedro ran over to him waiting to get patted on the head. “Uncle Cortez, what are you doing here?” Catalina asked, surprised.”I’m here to ask your father about something”. Francisco walked out the door and smiled when he saw his brother. ”Hi Francisco, we need to talk” Cortez explained, sounding serious . Francisco’s smiled disappeared

themselves as highly superior. These first travels were led by Cortez, who made it very clear that they were the ones in charge. In an excerpt from document 1, the Spanish tell the Indians that they must “agree to let the Christian priests preach to you” or else the Spanish would take them as slaves or kill them. During these days, not much of the ocean had been explored yet, especially not in the Americas. However, according to document 3, Cortez made a speech to the one who joined him saying, “I shall

fall of the Aztec Empire, I was able to get a better understanding to how it all happened.  It all started with the arrival of Hernan Cortez and his army of men in 1519. The great Aztec leader of Montezuma sent a messenger with gifts to warmly greet the new Spanish people. Cortez accepted the gifts of the Aztec people, but in a way laughed as to say is this all? Cortez and his men then demonstrated the brute force of their cavalry, horses and cannons. “His cavalry charged along the beach at full tilt

scratch fever. It was amazing I didn’t end up sick myself, since they added rat-catching to my lists of experiences. After we hit land, we were met with confrontation, but Cortez won the fights. They gave us food, supplies and shelter. Also, a bunch of other women joined our group. One of the women acted as a go between for Cortez and the leader of the local people. Her name was Malintzin, but we called her Dona Marina. The local people were strange and very ignorant in some areas, but very smart in

explorers from Spain that sailed to the Americas and made many interesting voyages.They both faced separate challenges and difficulties along the way. During their difficulties Cortes and Pizarro acquired allies to help them on their expeditions. Cortez and Pizarro were both very fierce and conquered many areas. Hernan Cortes was a fierce conquistador from Spain that grew up in a noble family. In 1504, he headed out for Hispaniola but ended up in Cuba in 1511. Cortes convinced the Cuban governor

Nahuatl, the name Quetzalcoalt can be translated to “feather serpent”. At the time Cortez arrived at Tenochtitlan, he was recognised as Quetzalcoatl, as on the same, Quetzalcoatl would supposedly return to rule over the lands. This gain a psychological advantage over Montezuma, as the current ruler thought that Cortez was immortal. The horses accompanying Cortez were thought to be mythical beasts. Montezuma was afraid of Cortez and offered him gold to prevent him from reaching inland. Additionally, he was

[Spanish name for the villainous Texas Rangers] and rising in his wrath to kill great numbers of his enemy…whatever his fate, he has stood up for his right.” For example, “El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez,” written in 1910, followed a well-meaning, honorable, hardworking Mexican-American man named Gregorio Cortez, whose brother

affected the people living in the new world was the search for gold. You can see that this was a big motive by looking in documents two and three. In document two it talks about how Cortez got lots of money for going to the new world and he promised gold and Indian slaves to people going with him. This document shows how Cortez promised something valuable as gold to motivate people to accompany