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Born in Medellín, Extremadura, Cortez lived through the years 1485-1547. He studied law at the University of Salamanca but decided to try his luck with the Americas in 1501. During 1518, he went and served under the governor of Cuba. With the governor's permission, he organized a crew to accompany him to Mexico. Just before he left for Mexico, Governor Velazquez revoked Cortez's commission because he feared that Cortez would not recognize his authority once in Mexico. Cortez however, left anyway, and later destroyed his ships so that men loyal to the governor would not have the ability to return to Cuba.
When they arrived in Mexico, the Spaniards imprisoned many captives and later founded a town called La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, now called Veracruz. One of the prisoners, Malinche, became his lady and acted as a guide and an interpreter. Cortez established an independent government and only recognized the authority of the Spanish crown. Once the town stabilized, he initiated his progression inward. He defeated a tribe known as the Tlaxcalans and then formed a treaty with them against the Aztecs. Immediately ensuing a meeting with Montezuma II, Cortez decided to enter Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs' capital. Some Aztecs believed that Quetzalcoatl, a god, with light skin, and a beard, had returned from the east as Cortez. Montezuma, instead of resisting Cortez, allowed them to gain access to the city so he could perceive their motives.
Once in the city, the Spaniards took Montezuma hostage, and made him pay an enormous ransom of gold and jewels. Along with about 600 native associates, the Spaniards set up base in one of the Aztec's many ceremonial temples. During all these events, Governor Velazquez sent a fleet under soldier Panfilo de Narvaez to Mexico. Cortez knew of this and marched with a small group to the coast where he captured Panfilo de Narvaez, and persuaded most of the soldiers to join his band. When they returned to Tenochtitlan, an Aztec revolt had progressed too far. Montezuma died from a stoning three days after asking the Aztec people to calm down. On June 30, 1520, a dark rainy night known as Noche Triste, the Spaniards retreated from the city.
After defeating a large number of Aztecs, he went to the Tlaxcalan tribe and reorganized his army. Cuauhtemoc, the new ruler, fell with the city Tenochtitlan on August 13, 1521. Cortez then erected Mexico City on top of the ruins of Tenochtitlan. The reward would be the for the Tlaxicalans participation in the encomienda systems of Spanish protection and education. Immigrants moved in and the city became the most important Spanish city in the Americas. Spanish colonization had put an end to the blood culture of the Aztecs and worked to bring civility to the survivors of the inevitable diseases.
New Spain elected Hernando Cortez as its governor and Captain general in 1523. He also discovered the Baja California peninsula in 1536. Fearing his ambition, the Spanish Court revoked his two positions as well as his rights and property.
In 1530, Cortez married the count of Aguilar's daughter and returned to Mexico. Most of his fortune and his ship went down with the unsuccessful expedition to Algiers in 1541. On a plot of land near Seville, he died in 1547. He is also known as "Hernán Cortés" or "Hernan Cortes".
Present-day Mexico City, it was a native tribe's city.
After conquering the Aztecs, Cortes renamed the city of Tenochtitlan to Mexico City.
Hernan Cortes -also known as Hernando Cortes- subdued the Aztecs, destroyed Tenochtitlan, built Mexico City, and claimed Mexico for the Spanish colony of New Spain. Hope I helped..
Tenochtitlan... the place where the Aztecs ruled. it is now called Mexico City.
Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec's capital city, Tenochtitlan (now Mexico) and then he married the Aztec king (Montezuma)'s daughter.
He landed on the Mexico shore, sunk his ships so none of his men could return or turn on him, then he encountered the Aztects, and defeated them. They made Mexico city there and then went south for the Incas, who were wealthy.
After conquering the Aztecs, Cortes renamed the city of Tenochtitlan to Mexico City.
August 13 1521 is when he took Mexico City.
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Hernan Cortes -also known as Hernando Cortes- subdued the Aztecs, destroyed Tenochtitlan, built Mexico City, and claimed Mexico for the Spanish colony of New Spain. Hope I helped..
1521, atop the ruins of the recently-destroyed city of Tenochtitlan.
Tenochtitlan... the place where the Aztecs ruled. it is now called Mexico City.
The name of the Aztec ruler captured by Hernando Cortes was Montezuma ll. He was captured in the capital of the Aztec Empire in the city called Tenochtitlan. The city was near what is now Veracruz, Mexico and not far from the location of Mexico's capital of Mexico City.
Mexico was found on March 13, 1325 when Aztec people found their capital city of Tenochtitlan at the place we know today as Mexico City.
Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec's capital city, Tenochtitlan (now Mexico) and then he married the Aztec king (Montezuma)'s daughter.
The oldest and still populated city in Mexico - and possibly of the Western Hemisphere - would be Cholula, some 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Mexico City. It was founded circa 1200 B.C. If you mean 'founded by Spaniards', that would be Veracruz, founded by Hernan Cortes in April 22, 1519.
Veracruz was founded by Hernan Cortes (1485 - 1547) on April 22, 1519 when he set foot in Mexico. He named the city as "Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz" or "Rich village of the True Cross".Mexico-Tenochtitlan or simply Tenochtitlan was founded by the Aztecs on March 13, 1325 when they became permanent settlers of the Texcoco Valley.After the Fall of Tenochtitlan in August 13, 1521. Tenochtitlan came to be Mexico City, but it was not founded by Cortes - he just renamed it to sound more "Spanish", as was the practice of the day.
He landed on the Mexico shore, sunk his ships so none of his men could return or turn on him, then he encountered the Aztects, and defeated them. They made Mexico city there and then went south for the Incas, who were wealthy.