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Includes Cortés's Second Letter to Charles V, one of the most descriptive firsthand accounts of the Aztecs and Tenochtitlan. Discusses the Aztec Empire, the city of Tenochtitlan, and the human sacrifice rituals. Includes a Bibliograpy for even more listening. "Among these temples there may be one which considerably surpasses all the others, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue can identify; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall membrane, there is enough room for a town of 500 individuals." (Hernán Cortés) A lot of printer ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most important figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? Age Exploration and the explorers who lay out on the history-making expeditions still left many legacies and profoundly affected history around the world. The voyages of men like Columbus and the conquests of men like Cortés experienced dramatic results for the natives, escalated tensions between your European countries, initiated imperialistic empires on a global scale, helped beginning the United States, and ensured that the wars in the 20th hundred years were truly world wars. In Charles River Editors' Legendary Explorers series, listeners can get swept up to accelerate on the lives of the most crucial explorers of background in enough time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long neglected or never known. During the Time of Exploration, some of the most famous and infamous individuals were Spain's best known conquistadors. Naturally, as the best known conquistador, Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) is also the most controversial. Like Christopher Columbus before him, Cortés was lionized for his successes for years and years without questioning his practices or motives, while indigenous views of the person have been overwhelmingly negative for the results his conquests experienced on the Aztecs and other natives in your community. Just about the thing everyone agrees upon is the fact Cortés experienced a profound effect on the annals of THE UNITED STATES.
