The City Of Dreams: The Aztec Conquest Part 1
Conflicted: A History Podcast
Cortes's Gift for Wordsmithing
In 15 18, our old friend, hernand cortez was a rich man. He made extremely good use of his first decade in the new world. Cortes knew how to win people over, to make them like him. The kind of person you could walk into a room furious at and then leave feeling like he was your best friend in the world. Historian hugh thomas says that cortes talked well,. always having the right expression for the occasion and agreeable in converse. In his way, he had that capacity of all successful men, of being able to conceal his real intentions until the pair which he coveted was ready to fall.
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