And why is it Hernán Cortés?
>>18289142Nah. He was a pedo. Look up Isabel Moctezuma
>>18289142I invoke mesofag to write a text about how they didn't actually "conquer" Mexico and how Cortes actually venerated the best civilization ever created!!
>>18289142Bernal Diaz because he actually documented the conquest and is one of the main sources of information we have from the Spanish on the campaign.
>>18289142Whats a good book on this nigga?
Going to be a hipster and say Afonso de Albuquerque a portuguese conquistador who conquered india malaca ormuz and who planned to rob the corpse of prophet Muhammad so that he could use it as a bargaining coin to take back the holy land
>>18289142Cortez was a subhuman, greedy scumbag who only cared about gold and making a name for himself. I vote for Bernal Diaz too. >>18289214
>>18289142>>18289521They look evil even in paintings that were supposed to make them look good
>>18289142It is Cortez. That book by Bernie is awesome btw>>18289214 based fellow diaz book enjoyer
>>18289533He was brutal to his enemies but he banned sati (wife burning) and encouraged portuguese men to marry local women so he wasn't that bad
>>18289268Bernie Diaz book>>18289529Honestly the best of the bunch is Cortez's woman, maliche or whatever her name is. Top 5 women in history easy
>>18289538He was a pillager, a pirate subhuman and literal genocidal (planned to mass murder egyptians), nothing redeeming about him
>>18289540>malicheLiteral an insult in Mexico meaning someome who bretrays their own family or community or country
>>18289529Cortez was not an exceptionally terrible person. He was a moderate compared to others that came after him who really put the screws to the natives. We honestly don't appreciate him and Pizarro enough. They were so lucky it was a miracle that their expeditions succeeded. It's a crime they weren't rewarded more >>18289214Second Bernal Diaz de Castillo
>>18289142I took a trip to Mexico and saw his Palace in Cuernavaca. Truly interesting.
>>18289543That's pretty retarded given that she was a former slave who had no reason not to back the Spanish. She didn't "betray" anyone because she wasn't a member of the tribe in the first place. Anyway, Mexican nationalists trying to tie their contemporary history with Tenochtitlan are retarded.
Cabeza de Vaca, though he didn’t conquer anything. Shipwrecked survivor of the Narvaez expedition, went from naked slave to cool white guy shaman healer among the natives, travelled the southwest for years then made it to Mexico and write about his adventures.
