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Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España (Spanish Edition)
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@typesfast Bernal Diaz del Bastillo’s memoirs on Cortez’s Aztec expedition
Reads like an action novel. Very eye opening https://t.co/MNEyyqqMWr
Crónica de la Nueva España I (Historia nº 101) (Spanish Edition)
Francisco Cervantes de Salazar
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
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The mercilessness of the Aztecs is really understated now. It freaked Diaz out — really everybody on the expedition.
The Spanish took prisoners. The Aztecs sacrificed and ate theirs. https://t.co/TOCmQkhTjv
within thirty years of Columbus’s first American landfall, the conquest of the Aztec Empire by Cortés and his company of adventurers signalled that European intrusion into the Americas held a different significance from the piecemeal colonization of Europe’s oceanic periphery or Portugal’s hijacking of Asian trade.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Los de abajo. Novela de la Revolución mexicana (Biblioteca Universitaria de Bolsillo) (Spanish Edition)
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