Cortés and Moctezuma meet on the causeway
1519 · Event
On the great southern causeway over Lake Texcoco, the ruler of the largest city in the Americas — a city that stuns the Spaniards, 'like the enchantments in the book of Amadís' — receives five hundred foreigners as guests. Within a week Moctezuma is their hostage in his own capital.
On these timelines: Conquest of the Aztec Empire, Pre-Columbian Americas, Latin America, Master, Spain
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