The Fall of the Aztecs: The Adventure Begins (TRIH eps 384-391)
1521 · Resource
“The blood flowed like water…” It is 1520 and word has reached Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan that another group of Spaniards led by the ferocious Pánfilo de Narváez, have landed on the coast to hunt him down. Taking drastic action, he decides to leave the city with his wily mistress Malinche to pursue the newcomers, but not before taking the Emperor of the Aztecs, Montezuma, as his hostage. But can Cortés really overcome a much larger force commanded by such a formidable rival? And can his...
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Around 1521
- The Reformation (1517)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)