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Cortez's Conquest of Tenocilan
Cortez contacted a spanish historian named francisco lopez de gomara and convinced him to write a history of the conquest of mexico. Gomara's book laid the foundations for the narrative that the spanish conquered tenoctitlan because they were technologically and morally superior. But whow does it miss the mark when it comes to nuance and accuracy? And perhaps one of the biggest misconceptions af birth was that after tenoctitland surrendered, it was destroyed and automatically became a sp Spanish city.