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Hernan Cortes was a Spaniard. He was born in Extremadura, south'west Spain. He took the determination of conquering the Aztec empire. He ignored the orders to return back to Cuba and send emisaires directly to the king of Spain. He had a child with the Aztec interpreter.

Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the colonization of the Americas.

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