The Life Of Hernando Cortes

Hernando Cortes was born in 1485 in a town called Medellin in Extremadura Spain. During the time of Cortes’ youth, the town of his birth was “like the setting of a carnival for a growing boy” (Marks 3). Medellin was the home of an old castle from the days of the wars between the Spanish and the Moors; the young boys of the town found this castle most entertaining. Later in his life Cortes started attending the …

…the life and times of Hernando Cortes. Since we have yet to cover Cortes in class I cant say exactly how the material I read will track with the material we will read. It does seem fairly obvious that if we read factual information, it should track well with everything I have written and wrote about. Bibliography Marks, Richard Lee. Cortes: The Great Adventurer and the Fate of Aztec Mexico. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.