Cortés takes Moctezuma hostage
1519 · Event
Days after his welcome, Cortés seizes Moctezuma in his own palace and rules through him for months — or, as revisionists argue, Moctezuma keeps the strangers as guests and curiosities.
On these timelines: Conquest of the Aztec Empire, Latin America, Spain, Master, Pre-Columbian Americas
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