Word: montezumae
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...halls of Montezuma but the halls of Kirkland House proved the biggest problem to Hernando Cortes '43 in his invasion of Harvard University. Three rooms, all for one person, was too much for the South American. The inner room, if there were a bed in it, was probably for sleeping--an obvious necessity, as was the little room with the tile floor. But the large room with the fire-place, "like the North Station," was completely unexplainable, even by the sincere upperclassman who pointed out, "Why, this is the one you live...
From the halls of Montezuma...
Sirs: If we give Britain the sort of all out aid we sent to Greece, she is going to be all in before receiving it. ... WINNIE BYRON Montezuma, Colo...
Cortes tricked the Aztec Montezuma by posing as Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god, and then methodically subdued the Indians with blunderbuss and broadsword. For the next 200-odd years New Spain, ruled from Mexico City but extending for a time as far as South Carolina, experienced what some historians have called a Golden Age. The Spaniards brought with them horses (but used the Indians as men of burden), wheat (the Indians still eat maize tortillas), such things as woolen blankets, armchairs, caps (for which the Indians exchanged jewels, silver, gold). The only things the Spaniards gave the Indians were smallpox...
From the Halls of Montezuma...