The spy reported honestly, but Cortés invented the plot himself.

" Matthew Restall argues that Moctezuma politely offering his throne to Cortés ( if indeed he did ever give the speech as reported ) may well have been meant as the exactly opposite of what it was taken to mean: politeness in Aztec culture was a way to assert dominance and show superiority.

Bernardino de Sahagún reported ritualistic use of teonanácatl by the Aztecs, when he traveled to Central America after the expedition of Hernán Cortés.

From 1533 – 1535, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés personally sponsored and financed exploratory sailing voyages north from Acapulco, in a search for legendary riches reported to be in the site of today's California.

Cortés used Marina ( her Christian name ) for translating between the Nahuatl language ( the common language of central Mexico of that time ) and the Chontal Maya language.

Cortés subsequently directed the systematic destruction and leveling of the city and its rebuilding, despite opposition, with a central area designated for Spanish use ( the traza ).

On December 6, Colombian Army troops allegedly under the command of General Cortés Vargas, opened fire on a crowd of strikers gathered in the central square of the town of Ciénaga.

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

European contacts with the Pericú began in the 1530s, first when Fortún Ximénez and mutineers from an expedition sent out by Hernán Cortés, the conqueror of central Mexico, reached La Paz, followed shortly afterwards by an expedition under Cortés himself ( Mathes 1973 ).

Assisted by Cortés, the West / Southwest IAF established ten independently operating labor market intermediaries by building the capacity of constituents to create the requisite political will.

* An apparent tornado is recorded to have struck Tlatelolco ( present day Mexico City ), on August 21, 1521, two days before the Aztec capital's fall to Cortés.

Thus, Cortés had to choose among three land routes: north to Tlatelolco, which was the least dangerous path but required the longest trip through the city ; south to Coyohuacan and Ixtlapalapan, two towns that would not welcome the Spanish ; or west to Tlacopan, which required the shortest trip through Tenochtitlan, though they would not be welcome there either.

It has a " sister " Beach called Isla Cortés ( Cortes Island ) or Nuevo Altata ( New Altata ) where this project of travel destination, has Begun with some Restaurants, and Private Areas.

Both Puerto Cortés, the country's largest port, and San Pedro Sula, Honduras's industrial capital, are located here, as is La Ceiba, the third largest city in the country.

La Malinche and Hernán Cortés in the city of Xaltelolco, in a drawing from the late 16th century Aztec codices | codex History of Tlaxcala.

On observing the great city Hernán Cortés wrote, " There are, in all districts of this great city, many temples or palaces ,...

Cortés estimated it was twice the size of the city of Seville with about 60, 000 people trading daily.

Cortés accompanied expeditions in 1534 and 1535 without finding the sought-after city.

On May 3, 1535, Cortés claimed " Santa Cruz Island " ( now known as the peninsula of Baja California ), and laid out and founded the city that was to become La Paz later that spring.

In 1519 Alvarado accompanied Hernán Cortés in his expedition to Mexico, commanding one of the eleven vessels in the fleet and also acting as Cortés ' second in command during the expedition's first stay in the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlán.

Aided by at least 20, 000 local Tlaxcalan warriors, Hernán Cortés marched into the city.

Hernán Cortés estimated that the city had 430 temples and about 20, 000 homes in the center of the city with another 20, 000 on the periphery.

Cortés was attracted to the pastureland of the valley area, but while there was a great deal of irrigated farms, the city had a population of about 100, 000 and overpopulation meant that many poor people often lacked food.

In 1520 the troops of Hernán Cortés occupied the city and killed Cacamatzin, Nezahualpilli's son and the last independent tlatoani, installing Ixtlilxochitl II as a puppet ruler.

Cortés attacks and captures Kukulcán ’ s city, the City of the Seven Serpents, but Julián escapes to a friendly large village and helps them harvest and trade pearls.

85 % of the city of Cuernavaca is dedicated to housing, and much of this is in upper-class housing developments such as Rancho Cortés, Rancho Tetela, and Colonia del Bosque, which are located on the outskirts of the city.

Just outside the front of the building is an old pyramid base over which Cortés had the structure built, on a hill that dominated the old city.

Cortés did live in Coyoacán in 1521 and 1522, while the destroyed Aztec city of Tenochtitlan was being rebuilt into Mexico City, and the area was the capital of the colony of New Spain.

The first four-lane highway in Honduras was inaugurated in 1996, connecting Puerto Cortés and the city of San Pedro Sula.

Cempoala was the first indigenous city state visited by Hernán Cortés in his march to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán.

Cortés then freed Cuitláhuac and once Cuitláhuac was free he led his people against the conquistadors.

While the expedition was stopped in the Chontal Maya capital of Itzamkanac, known as Acalan in Nahuatl, Cortés had Cuauhtémoc executed for allegedly conspiring to kill him and the other Spaniards.

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 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.

He sailed first to Cuba, to pick up supplies Cortés had arranged for him, where Governor Velázquez convinced him to go and claim the colony he was to found as his own.

However, both las Casas and Cortés sail back to Mexico before the end of 1525, where Francisco was arrested and sent back to Spain as a prisoner by Estrada and Alboronoz.

Fesitranh was by far the country's most powerful labor federation, with most of its unions located in San Pedro Sula and the Puerto Cortés Free Zone.

The government-sponsored Puerto Cortés Free Zone was opened in 1976.

La Malinche (; c. 1496 or c. 1505 – c. 1529 ), known also as Malinalli, Malintzin or Doña Marina, was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who played a role in the Spanish conquest of Mexico, acting as interpreter, advisor, lover, and intermediary for Hernán Cortés.

Soon, however, Puertocarrero was on his way to Spain as Cortés ' emissary to Charles V, and Cortés kept her by his side for her value as an interpreter who spoke two native languages — Mayan and Nahuatl.

Following the fall of Tenochtitlán in late 1521 and the birth of her son Don Martín Cortés in 1522, Marina stayed in a house Cortés built for her in the town of Coyoacán, 8 miles south of Tenochtitlán, while it was being rebuilt as Mexico City.

" Rodríguez de Ocana, another conquistador, relates Cortés ' assertion that after God, Marina was the main reason for his success.

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.

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.

Unlike Bernal Díaz, who was remembering his memories many years after the fact, Cortés wrote his Cartas de relación ( Letters from Mexico ) in the moment in order to justify his actions to the Spanish Crown.

This speech has been a factor in fostering the belief that Moctezuma was addressing Cortés as the returning god Quetzalcoatl.

Although he had found no El Dorado to equal those of Hernán Cortés in Mexico and Francisco Pizarro in Peru, he was loved by his people, who lamented his passing.