Spanish Conquest History

>>2355021
You can actually read the letters of Hernandez Cortez himself, which he wrote as he encountered the Aztecs. They have been preserved and translates into English.

>>2355021
this
>>2355046
or bernal diaz's true history, which is the better read i've heard.

Yup. The best is "HIstoria verdadera de la conquista de la nueva España" (The True History of the Conquest of New Spain) by Bernal Díaz del Castillo, who was just a common foot soldier who went with the three first expeditions to America, and that wrote everything he saw from beginnign to end of the war. It's a 1000+ page masterpiece. Reading it right now.
It's really cool to read how witty Cortés was, and everything they did to use morale tactics, making friends and enemies. It's really curious how complex most characters are.
Excpet for Pedro de Alvarado, most of them weren't evil, as the superior jewish race wants us to believe

>>2355046
>Cortez
come on man

>>2355095
>the chosen ones are wrong about anything
Impossible. Their chosen status makes them instantly right on everything.

>>2355104
>Mexicans start talking shit about spaniards
>rebellion brewing
>Pedro de Alvarado kills about 400 mexican chiefs in the most important festivity for the natives to end the problem before it starts
>jews will actually say it was justified
you're actually right, now that you made me think about it

>>2355095
>Excpet for Pedro de Alvarado, most of them weren't evil, as the superior jewish race wants us to believe
Explain why Cortes massacred all the nobles of Cholula, if they really were planning an ambush why would they met with him unarmed or let alone go to his meeting?

>>2355021
> How did they communicate
Two spanish dudes got ashore in a shipwreck and became indians.
Then when Cortes landed, found about those two. One of them returned to their tribe as he had a family. The other one (Aguirre) joined again and would become useful later.
In some battle against the indians in Tabasco, the losers offered Cortes some presents. Among the bounty there were 20 women. One of them (aka Malinche) was from the nobility and knew the mayan and colhua languages.
So Cortes talked to Aguirre, which only knew the language of Yucatan, and Aguirre talked to Malinche, which finally translated to the locals.

>>2355173
>Aguirre
*Aguilar

>>2355169
read>>2355130
I do think Alvarado did the right thing. But Cortes actually got very mad. The thing is, that event did start a war anyways.

>>2355177
Yes. sorry he was called Jerónimo de Aguilar.
The other one was Gonzalo Guerrero. He had 3 children when Cortés arrived, and refused to join.

>>2355181
>I do think Alvarado did the right thing.

>Allowed the Aztecs to celebrate a festival as long there was no sacrifices and people were unarmed and then proceded to block the exits and shot and stab 8000 nobles, including women, old people and children
>the right thing

Azetec """Cities"""" were already dilapidated and unspectactular by the time Europeans arrived. THanks to civil war and barbaristic acts committed during the centures of civil that predated eurospeans they ruined theirselves before europeans arrived to save them

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>>2355229
1/10

>>2355095
Is the Penguin translation of this work good? Kinda getting interested now.

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>>2355754
this says Maudslay's translation is better