Word: alvarado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleeping gulls." Here they lead an idyllic life, described by Poet MacLeish in beautiful detail. But their attempt to make their security more secure, by holding Montezuma hostage, leads to their ruin. When Cortes goes back to Cempoala, to fight off some Spaniards sent after him by Governor Velasquez, Alvarado, left in charge at Mexico City, gets into trouble with the natives. When Cortes returns, Montezuma is slain by his own people who, hornet-mad, drive the conquistadors from their paradise. The following spring the vengeful conquistadors raze the city, build a Spanish town, with streets squared "and the church...