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A remarkable rethinking of the come across between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first satisfied Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This advantages - the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City also to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas - is definitely the icon of Cortés' daring and brilliant armed service genius. Montezuma, on the other side, is appreciated as a coward who provided away a huge empire and handled off a influx of colonial invasions across the hemisphere. But is this really what took place? Within a departure from traditional tellings, When Montezuma Met Cortés uses "the Getting together with" - as Restall dubs their first come across - as the entry way into a comprehensive reevaluation of both Cortés and Montezuma. Sketching on rare key sources and forgotten accounts by conquistadors and Aztecs equally, Restall explores Cortés' and Montezuma's posthumous reputations, their accomplishments and failures, and the worlds where they lived - leading, step by step, to a remarkable inversion of the old tale. As Restall will take us through this sweeping, revisionist consideration of an pivotal instant in modern civilization, he message or calls into question our view of the history of the Americas and, indeed, of background itself.

Category: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism