The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
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The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.012

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Abstract

The Spanish conquest of Mexico marks the true beginning of the Spanish Empire in America. Like many other early Spanish colonial projects in the Americas, it was initially less an effort of the Spanish state than of an independent military entrepreneur, or “conquistador,” Hernán Cortés, who from his base in the Spanish colony of Cuba gathered a small army of adventurers to establish contact with the mainland.

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