Cortez and the Aztecs

Victor Hanson: Hernan Cortez was a minor, minor Spanish official at Cuba. He had heard tales that there was a monumental empire in the interior of Mexico. But he organized an ad hoc group and he cobbled together about 500 to be Frank glory hunters. And they landed it as what is now varicrues. They almost immediately were opposed by various allies, neutrals and enemies of the Aztec Empire. Even the Tlex Collins bought them. The unfortunate experience destiny fate of the Aztecs and their original allies that they were encountering a very peculiar, weird people.