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Hernán Cortés was a descendant from an old line of knights, he studied law for two years in the Universidad de Salamanca; this helped him to build the strategies to conquer Mexico-Tenochtitlan in just two years, after that he was not only successful, but the most powerful man in Nueva España, and one of the most powerful men in Spain.

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