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Cortes's Montra on the Spanish and the American Empires
In 15 21, hernand cortes arrived in cuba. He was only 19 when he took the journey to the caribbian islands. Cortes and others had heard rumors of an empire to the west with immense wealth. That empire was in what we to day call mexico city. And cortes had his eyes set on it. From the moment he steps foot in vera cruz, he is a person who is winging it. Owmanhe starts march towards tenecgan. It does not know what he will find. For the next few decades, this montra guided the behavior of the spanish and the americas. They murdered and enslaved the indigenous