Hernan Cortez was a Spanish conquistador who is especially known for the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. He was born in Medellin, Spain in 1485 to a family with lesser nobility. His parents are known as Martin Cortes and Catalina Pizarro Altamirano. They hoped for their son to become a lawyer one day. However, no one imagined that the military ran in his blood; he would become known and remembered for such an important part in history. This is the time when one of the many military undertakings of history started: Hernán Cortés' walk in 1519-20 from the Gulf of Mexico to Tenochtitlán, seat of the Aztec domain. Its hero, 34-year-old with no experience of war, drove around 500 men and a little more than twelve steeds into regions whose…show more content… After two years he decided to return home not knowing that his training and experience as a notary would later be useful for legal codes in his journey to conquering Mexico. He was a simply a mischievous young man living in his home. Around this time, news about the discovery of the new world by Christopher Columbus was all around. It was then the time when Cortes decided to sail to the Americas with Nicolas de Ovando however, it was not possible due to the fact that he suffered an injury. For the next year he just wandered off in to the country listening to indies who talked about the discovery of unknown lands. In 1504 he left for Hispaniola where he became a colonist. Cortez was an eighteen year-old in Santo Domigo and he then registered as a citizen which gave him benefits such as a building plot and land to farm. Not to long after, Nicolas de Ovando, still the governor…show more content… When his body was plundered, an Aztec came down with the illness, which spread like out of control fire in light of the fact that the Aztec individuals had no insusceptibility to it. Here we see that Cortes and his men went through difficult things while trying to conquer the Aztecs and Mexico. Cortés regrouped and assaulted Tenochtitlán in full constrain in 1521. By then, the Aztecs no more trusted Montezuma, they were short on sustenance, and the smallpox pestilence was under way. More than 3 million Aztecs died from smallpox, and because of this it was much more easy and simple for the Spanish to take Tenochtitlán. It is indeterminate how Montezuma passed away. Some researchers state that, sickened with him, the Aztecs stoned him to death. Others, including indigenous researchers, state that the Spanish murdered him. Once the city had fallen, Cortés started fabricating Mexico City on the remnants. It then turned into a pre-prominent city in the Spanish provinces and numerous Europeans came to live there. As a consequence of his prosperity, King Charles I of Spain selected Cortés as legislative
