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
burial chapel dedicated particular pay places towers
All these towers are the burial places of the nobles, and every chapel in them is dedicated to a particular idol, to which they pay their devotions.
meals rooms cleaning
The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.
church towers body
There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.