The conquest of Mexico

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• YeGoblynQueenne · Jul 2, 2021 · Recommends

  …were afraid of horses and so broke and run at the sight of the Spaniards on horses. These are not very well supported by first-hand accounts, for example in my favourite history book of all times, The Conquest of Mexico, by Bernal Diaz del Castillo (one of Hernan Cortes' men), there are many descriptions of battles between the Conquistadores and the Aztecs and the Aztecs don't run away - the gunpowder and the horses…

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• aasarava · Mar 29, 2010 · Recommends

  The Conquest of Mexico, by Bernal Diaz -- a conquistador who traveled with the Cortes expedition to Mexico City to overthrow King Montezuma. Incredible, true story written by someone who has actually there. An unknown land;…

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• YeGoblynQueenne · Aug 3, 2019 · Recommends

  …(a) is a particularly strong justification. On the one hand we know of societies where cannibalism was normal and even mandatory. For example, one of my favourite books of all times is "History of the conquest of Mexico" by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a conquistador who campaigned with Hernan Cortés [1]. He reports the cannibalistic rituals of the Aztecs. It's a prime example of humans having no compunctions to eat other…

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• YeGoblynQueenne · Apr 18, 2016 · Recommends

  The Conquest of Mexico and New Spain, by Bernal Diaz del Castillo: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32474/32474-h/32474-h.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32475/32475-h/32475-h.htm That's the bees knees and the cat's pajamas…

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• abrowne · Jun 23, 2018 · Mentions

  …twenty-two years after the city fell. Valadés claimed that between 15,000 and 20,000 people were sacrificed in Tenochtitlan per year." Later, "Cortés’s confessor and the first formal historian of the Conquest of Mexico, raised the figure to 50,000." "The number is remarkable for how preposterous it is: more than 137 sacrifices a day, five an hour, one every twelve minutes, twenty-four hours a day. Aztec sacrifice was…

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• echelon_musk · Mar 29, 2025 · Mentions

  I've got a copy of The Conquest of Mexico by Hugh Thomas on my book shelf and I tell myself I will eventually finish reading the tome! This article might help me reinspire myself with this history. I sometimes like to wonder what if, and wonder…

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