Cortés Meets Montezuma // Cortés' letters // 8th November 1519

In the early Sixteenth Century a force of hundreds overcame an empire of millions.

This is the story of one of the most momentous events of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire - the meeting of Spanish leader Hernán Cortés, an obscure career soldier from the Castilian badlands, and Montezuma, the ruler of the Aztec Triple Alliance, a man revered as a god upon earth by his millions of subjects.

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