Hernando Cortes

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Hernando Cortes

• Name Enzo De Gasperi
• Grade Level 3rd grade
• Class 106 ms.Jolay
• October 3, 2006

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His life before an explorer

• Known as Hernando , Hernan, or Fernando
• Lived in a noble family
• Moved to Santo Domingo, 1504

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Where did he explore?

• Mexico, Santiago De Cuba, Trujillo, Tenochtitlan,
  Veracruz, Aztec empire, Central America

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His arrival to Mexico.

• Conquered Mexico 2 years
• Associates with indian leaders
• Indians gave woman to spaniards, called her
  Marina
• Marina bore Cortes a son

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What city did he find? Then where did he go? Why
did some indians helped Cortes

• Veracruz
• Tenochtitlan
• Aztec empire was cruel

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Who was Montezuma? What happened to him?

• Aztec emperor
• Died

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What happened to Cortes after the conquest?

• Became captain governor
• Received title Marques del Valle de Oaxaca
• Found new cities