Hernando Cortes
Hernando Cortes
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxacawas a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas...
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth2 December 1485
CityMedellin, Spain