The City Of Dreams: The Aztec Conquest Part 1
Conflicted: A History Podcast
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Cortes Alvarado and the Spanish Conquistadors
Cortes alvarado and his most trusted captains devised a plan. If they created a new town, a new coastal colony, in the name of the king of spain, they would be legal overseers of that colony. The few men who resisted this coup cortes had flogged or hanged. One of them even had his feet cut off. So on june 20 eighth, 15 19, cortes founded the city of villa rica de la vera cruz rich town of the true s.
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