Around 500 years ago, Hernán Cortés conquered the metropolis of the Aztec ruler Montezuma, almost in a surprise attack. From then on, the conquistador will be celebrated for his epochal victory – which in truth never happened before.
By Fred Langer
This is the story of a swindler and swindler who lets himself be celebrated as a brilliant commander and conqueror of foreign worlds, who leads most of his men to their deaths, who massacres civilians and who is still revered as a hero. It is also the story of a supposedly dark empire, populated by cruel cannibals and bloodthirsty warriors, which proves to be a haven of beauty and high culture. It is the story of a great lie: that of the conquest of the Aztec Empire by a small band of Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés.
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