history of what happened in the first decades of the sixteenth century in the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and the coast and the arrival of English conquistadors to the mainland they called Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz. Is the ratio of facts Fernando Benitez wrote more than six decades.
The conquest of Mexico is one of the chapters of national history, Latin America and the world, marked a milestone in the development of mankind. Sea and islands was what dominated the English in the Caribbean. Several sailors were expeditions searching for new lands and gold. In search of gold Hernan Cortes led the expedition who left Cuba, ruled Diego Velasquez.
Looking gold sailed around the Yucatan peninsula and there was found to Jeronimo de Aguilar, after the gold entered the great river of Tabasco. Gave him gold and slaves who, after fighting, agreed to be subjects of the English king. Mallinalli in the group of slaves, then it would be baptized as Marina and Nahuatl into Mayan interpreter for Cortes, the interpreter of Maya the Castilian would Jerónimo de Aguilar. That was collecting gold. And also got interpreters to become party of those who were his allies and enemies.
Fernando Benitez, a description of how the cities were Cortes and his army were found-Cempoala, Tlaxcala. Cholula, Tenochtitlan, and on a recent tour, more than six decades, how were these same places. The people of Cempoala to mid-twentieth century, the city of Tlaxcala and its eighteenth-century baroque. The author is generous when it comes to Xalapa, their houses, the green of the surrounding mountains and colorful gardens, water abundance and variety of plants.
the author reflects on the transformation of Cholula after the slaughter of Indians commanded by Cortés. Its transformation to Christianity imposed by the sword, to a fault to have a shrine or temple for each of the saints in every day of the year.
Volcanoes perennial witnesses. Walking the army of Cortes from the coast to the plateau, rising to cross between Popocatepetl and Iztacciuatl to reach the valley of Anahuac. The vision of Tenochtitlan. City in the lake. The reception of the emperor Moctezuma. The great market of Tlatelolco, and Benitez writes. Ownership by the English treasure Auhizotl spoiled by Moctezuma. The fall of Tenochtitlan and the end of the Aztec empire.
In the last chapter, the author takes a look at the transformation of Tenochtitlan, a city destroyed by the conquerors. In the ruins built colonial capital city of New Spain. And his transformation into the first half of the twentieth century being as Mexico City.
Several historical sources, as written by Cortes in his letters relationship and Bernal Diaz in his Chronicle true, he summoned Fernando Benitez and gave us his vision of the English conquest of Mexico and it was more than six decades, the route taken by the invading army after his departure from Cuba to what is today the political and economic center of Mexico.
Title: The path of Hernan Cortes
Author: Fernando Benitez
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Economica
Edition: First, January 1950
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