Grade Range: K-12Resource Type(s): Primary Source, ArtifactsDate Posted: 9/18/2009
This engraving shows Hernán Cortés (1485 1547), the Spanish captain who headed the conquest of the Aztec Empire. He became a part of popular mythology the moment he arrived in Mexico in 1521. Cortés had spent time in Cuba killing and enslaving its indigenous inhabitants and administering the new social order of the Spanish colonies of the Caribbean...
This tile is from La Fortaleza, a military and government complex in San Juan built to defend the...
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