Word: cortese
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"It does seem weird that a majority of students get honors," said second-year student Bertha Cortes.
THIS FALL, IN AN UNMARKED OFFICE IN THE SUBBASEMENT of the Minnesota state capitol, a team of resource-management planners is fine-tuning the biggest water-diversion project in the history of mankind and the largest transfer of wealth since Cortes acquired the Aztec empire.
A case in point is British historian Hugh Thomas. With Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico (Simon and Schuster; 812 pages; $30), Lord Thomas, author of what is arguably the finest study in English of the Spanish Civil War, has taken the heady risk of challenging a...
In either version, the story of Hernan Cortes' great adventure is a remarkable one. In early 1519 this wily and enterprising Castilian landed at what is now Veracruz. A few months later, he and his bedraggled company of 300 soldiers entered the Mexican capital of Tenochtitlan, a city more grand...
The Mexica far outnumbered the Spaniards, and the two peoples were equally bloodthirsty, but in the end, Thomas demonstrates, superior technology enabled the Spanish to prevail. The Mexica fought with lances and swords that were designed to wound, not kill. The Spanish had crossbows, harquebuses and armor- clad horses, none...