CONQUEST: CORTES, MONTEZUMA, AND THE FALL OF OLD MEXICO

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Summary: Real life stories better than any fiction....
Review: We have been taught that the middle age Europeans where so "advanced" that they easily won over all Native American. Nothing farther from the true, not with the Mexica.

Thomas narrates in a spell bounding fashion, the clash of two Empires: One in decadence (Spain) and other in expansion (Mexica). It goes from Spain's buroecratic court environment to the religiously directed growth of the Mexicas, without losing any reader in the process.

Futhermore, he explains that, contrary to the common complot theory, the Spaniard incursions where mostly private (companies) in great efforts to make money for themselves.

Ultimately Thomas answers the fascinating question: How a couple hundred Spaniard could win over millions of advanced Mexicas warriors? Definitely Herman Cortes story is fascinating.

If you want a lidership book nothing better than this epic story. Dave Cortes