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"Five hundred years ago, in November 1519, Hernando Cortes walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always from the point of view of the Europeans. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were more intrigued by the Roman alphabet than the Spaniards...
Author
Publisher
Plaza y Janés
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
"En su lecho de muerte, doña Marina - hoy conocida como Malinche - escribe treinta cartas a Martín, el hijo que procreó con el conquistador de México Fernando (Hernán) Cortés, en las cuales le cuenta la verdad sobre su vida. Narra en ellas su infancia en Veracruz como hija de un cacique aficionado a la astronomía, que tuvo un desgraciado final en manos de los aztecas. Luego fue vendida a comerciantes mayas, quienes le dieron un trato humillante....
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Tells the life story of sixteenth-century Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés, chronicling the conquest of the Aztec Empire, and includes a chronology, glossary, and further resource list.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hern�an Cort�es entered the city of Tenochtitlan - today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cort�es was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators:...
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