After those pieces were melted, they only gave a fraction of the gold that Cortés and his men expected.

According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a conquistador serving under Cortés who recorded his experiences in his book The Conquest of New Spain, the supposed plot was revealed by two men, named Tapia and Juan Velásquez.

She alerted Cortés to the danger and even pretended to be cooperating with her native informants while Cortés foiled their plot to trap his men.

The first contact between indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, when Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to escape from the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.

However, Cortés and the most skilled of his men manage to escape and later regroup.

* October 12 – Hernán Cortés and his men, accompanied by 3, 000 Tlaxcalans, entered Cholula.

The Tlaxcalans remained loyal to their Spanish friends and were allowed to come on other conquests with Cortés and his men.

Cortés spent some time at the island of Cozumel, tried with mixed results to convert the locals to Christianity, and heard stories of other bearded white men living in the area.

Hernán Cortés, the Spanish commander, scuttled his ships, so that his men would have to conquer or die.

The Aztecs recaptured their city with Cortés ’ men fleeing the city, followed by arrows and rocks.

Cortés and his men fled towards Tacuba on the road that still connects it with the historic center of Mexico City.

Cortés and his men landed at the shore opposite the island where Grijalva had moored, which has the pre-Hispanic name of Chalchihuecan.

Narváez disembarked at Veracruz, where Cortés had left behind a small garrison upon setting out with the rest of his men for the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.

Tzekel-Kan comes to outside El Dorado, where Cortés and his men are searching for gold.

As Tulio and Chel start to leave, they spot smoke on the horizon, realizing that Cortés and his men are approaching the city with the help from Tzekel-Kan. To protect the city from the Spanish troops, Tulio determines they can use the boat to slam against rock formations under the waterfall path that will cave in and block access to the city.

Tulio, Miguel, Chel, and Altivo hide as Tzekel-Kan brings Cortés and his men towards the waterfall.

Cortés and his men then march away with a humiliated Tzekel-Kan in their hands.

The Spaniards would not learn of these two men until the expedition of Hernán Cortés, two years later.

The explorer Hernán Cortés and his men were familiar with the book ; Cortés quoted it in 1524.

The Spaniard conquistador Hernán Cortés, who led the first expedition that resulted in the fall of the Aztec empire, ordered his men to strip and scuttle his fleet in order to prevent the secretly planned return to Cuba by those loyal to Cuban Governor Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar.

Cortés followed the same plan when he and his men established the city of Veracruz.

It was clear from the beginning that he was ambivalent about who Cortés and his men really were: gods, descendants of a god, ambassadors from a greater king, or just barbaric invaders?

Eventually Cortés recovered some gold from a noble's house, but most of the tales about " Aztec gold " were a myth.

According to Cortés himself, on 27 February 1525 it was revealed to him by a citizen of Tenochtitlan named Mexicalcingo that Cuauhtémoc, Coanacoch ( the ruler of Texcoco ) and Tetlepanquetzal ( the ruler of Tlacopan ) were plotting his death.

According to Ixtlilxóchitl the three lords were joking cheerfully with each other, due to a rumor that Cortés had decided to return the expedition to Mexico, when Cortés asked a spy to tell him what they were talking about.

Before the twenty slave girls were distributed among the Spanish captains to serve them in " grinding corn ", Cortés insisted that they be baptized.

When Moctezuma was allegedly killed by being stoned to death by his own people " Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him who did not mourn him as if he were our father, which was not surprising, since he was so good.

In the codex's description of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortés, the Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorial Nahuatl, a speech which as described verbatim in the codex ( written by Sahagún's Tlatelolcan informants who were probably not eyewitnesses of the meeting ) included such prostrate declarations of divine or near-divine admiration as, " You have graciously come on earth, you have graciously approached your water, your high place of Mexico, you have come down to your mat, your throne, which I have briefly kept for you, I who used to keep it for you ," and, " You have graciously arrived, you have known pain, you have known weariness, now come on earth, take your rest, enter into your palace, rest your limbs ; may our lords come on earth.

During Charles ' reign, the territories in New Spain were considerably extended by conquistadores like Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro, who caused the Aztec and Inca empires to fall in little more than a decade.

Relations between the Spaniards and their hosts were uneasy, especially given Cortés ' repeated insistence that the Aztecs desist from idol worship and human sacrifice ; in order to ensure their own safety, the Spaniards took the Aztec king Moctezuma hostage.

The Spanish conqueror, Cortés, tells us about another place in Acalan where unmarried young women were sacrificed to a goddess in whom " they had much faith and hope ", possibly again Ix Chel.

Arquebuses were carried by some of the soldiers of Hernán Cortés in his conquest of Mexico in the 1520s, and arquebuses played an important role in the victories of Cristóvão da Gama's small and outnumbered army in his 1541 – 42 campaign in Ethiopia.

General Cortés Vargas, who issued the order to shoot, argued later that he had issued the order because he had information that U. S. boats were poised to land troops on Colombian coasts to defend American personnel and the interests of the United Fruit Company.

These villages not only did not take orders from Antequera, they were hostile to it, mostly likely encouraged by Cortés.

The Grijalva and Cortés expeditions were both received peacefully by the Maya of Cozumel, unlike the expeditions ’ experiences on other parts of the mainland.

Hernán Cortés took advantage of this situation, enlisting the Tlaxcalans as allies against the Aztecs, given them a base to attack from and regroup after the La Noche Triste when they were initially expelled from Tenochtitlan.

Cortés called the leaders of the city to the central square of the city where the Spanish were with their weapons.

He is best remembered for his poetry, but according to accounts by his descendants and biographers, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl and Juan Bautista de Pomar, he had an experience of an " Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere " to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed — not even those of animals.

From its lecture halls came Sebastián Antonio de Cortés, Riquelme, Rioja, Luis Germán y Ribón, founder of the Horatian Academy, Juan Sánchez, professor of mathematics at San Telmo, Martín Alberto Carbajal, Cardinal Belluga, Cardinal Francisco Solis Folch, Marcelo Doye y Pelarte, Bernardo de Torrijos, Francisco Aguilar Ribon, the Abate Marchena, Alberto Lista, and many others who shone in the magistracy, or were distinguished ecclesiastics.

The two most famous conquistadors were Hernán Cortés who conquered the Aztec Empire and Francisco Pizarro who led the conquest of the Incan Empire.

After Mexico fell, Hernán Cortés's enemies, Bishop Fonseca, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Diego Columbus and Francisco Garay were mentioned in the Cortés ' fourth letter to the King in which he describes himself as the victim of a conspiracy.

The army with which Hernán Cortés besieged Tenochtitlan was composed of 200, 000 soldiers, of which fewer than 1 % were Spaniards.