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Cortes
Hernan Cortes
(1485 -
2 December
, 1547) wis a explorer an Sodger frae
Spain
. Atween 1519 an 1521 he conquered the
Aztec
empire o Emperor
Montezuma
.
Cortes wis born in
Medellin
, a toun in the
Extremadura
province o the
Kinrik o Castile
in Spain. He gaed tae the Varsity o
Salamanca
but drapped oot whan 17 year auld. He chose tae try his luck in the
New Warld
.
He gaed tae the New Warld in 1506. He teuk a haund in the conquest o
Hispaniola
an
Cuba
. In 1519 he stairtit frae Cuba bi gailey an gaed ti
Yucatan
. In
Yucatan
he conquered the
Aztec
empire. Cortes saa the caipital o the empire
Tenochtitlan
, an wis surprised tae see that the ceity wis as great as
Constantinople
. Later in 1521 he destroyed it.
Cortes returned frae
Honduras
. Aifter he gaed back tae Spain wi a great treisure. He dee'd in
Seville
in 1547.
