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Deadly Baggage: What Cortes Brought to Mexico and How It Destroyed the Aztec Civilization

Deadly Baggage: What Cortes Brought to Mexico and How It Destroyed the Aztec Civilization

Sandine, Al

Paperback

General Military HistoryGeneral World HistoryMexican History

ISBN10: 0786497009
ISBN13: 9780786497003
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Aug 11 2015
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In 1519, a few hundred Europeans led by Hernan Cortes sailed from Cuba to the Mexican mainland, where they encountered representatives of the Aztec Empire. Their Iberian history, culture and religion, and their experience in the Greater Antilles made conquest and riches the aim of these adventurers. They regarded themselves as heroes in a romantic crusade of good against evil. Each member of the expedition sought to acquire precious metals and to become a lord of enslaved native labor. Their horses and steel swords, aided by native disunity and susceptibility to Old World diseases, ensured their success.

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