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Hernan Cortes was born in the spanish city of Medellin in 1485. He did refer his name as Hernando or Fernando Cortes. Hernan Cortes a spanish explorer who is famous mainly for his march across Mexico and his conquering of the aztec empire of Mexico. When he was a young man he studied Law, but soon after that he gave it up to seek his fortune in the new world. He was about 18 when he sailed off to the island of Hispaniola. In 1504 Hernan Cortes was 19 at the time he went to the island santo domingo. He has stayed their for seven years. He was a soldi and a farmer before he sailed off to diego velasquez and helped conquer cuba. Then he took part in the spanish conquest of Cuba in 1511. He became the major of santiago de cuba and stayed there until 1518. When Mexico was discovered and reported by Juan de grijalva, Velasquez picked Hernan to Build a colony there in 1518. Velasquez suspeed that cortes would go do his own things,and orders and canelled the expedition, but unfortunely cortes had already assembled men and equipment and they set off. Then Cortes rounded Peninsula in Yucatan and then touched Mexico on the coast of what is now the state of Tabasco. During The battle there with the indians, he took many captives, which is including a young aztec princess. She became his interpreter and advisor. He continued up the Coast. On April 21, 1519, He landed near Veracruz. He Preveted all his thoughts retreat, he burned his ships. Leaving only a small force on the coast. Cortes led what's left of his men into the interior, but there was a warlike tribe of natives that attacked his party. The Indians outnumbered the spaniards 300 to 1. Cortes reached Tenochittlan(which is now Mexico City) and he was recieved by Montezuma(The Aztec Empire). Soon after that Cortes had established headquarters in the capital, and he had learned that the Aztecs had plundered Veracruz. He Forced Montezuma to surrender the attackers, and he had them executed. In the meantime Velasquez sent out 1,400 soldiers to arrest Hernan. He defeted the army and mot of the survivos joined Cortes. Then he had returned to Tenchittlan(The Aztec capital). When Cortes and his men including the ones that joned him reached the heart of the city, they were ambushed by thousands of Aztec warriors. Cortes and three ther men survived the battle, and the other side that won had fewer than 500 men that survived and defeated Cortes. In July f 1520, he made it back to join the indians allance. That followin May Cortes attacked Tenochittlan by ship. On August 13,1521, the new Aztec empire(Guatemoc) had surrndered, and that was th end of the "great" Aztec empire. Later in life Cortes spent the next 7 years developing mines, farmlands. In 1528 went home and was very honored by Charles V, and he had missed a big adventure of the new world. When he returned to Mexico he was a Military commader. He viewed California in 1534 to 1535 and he fought agaist the pirates of Algiers in 1541. That same year he led an expedition against the maya of Yukatan. Hernan Cores died on December 2, 1542 near seville.

Dear Future, My Name Is Hernan Cortes, I could help you by still being a spanish explorer, i could help you in any fights you need help wth. Right now you guys are in war. I could help you guys stop the war and have peace. I might have lost a war before,but that don't mean i will lose again. In the end of the war your families will be reunited with all the soldiers that helped in the war. That's what happened to me, i got reunited with my famiy, and i was also honored and had respect. I've been in a lot of fights, and i know whatyou uys are gong through, you guys think you have it so easy, but back then it was the same thing where your at now. My work is very accurate. If you want to know what i did for a living search by name, and it will tell you everything. My work is veryhonest and i did it correctly and very honest. I would do my best to win victory agaist any battles, but at least i will try, that's all that counts. In a war a lot of people die, my job as a spanish explorer i could help some of those people suvive, so they can go back home and see their families once again. The contribution is important because it's war, and you need to know what your doing. I am a hero, that's what i do. i ca be a hero and fight in the war, people woud loe to see me fight in a war and help you guys become more respecful and be honored. My contribution in the atec was that i was in war with them, and that i wanted to defeat them, and win victory. I wanted to win all my battles, but I had lost taht battle agaist the Aztec. (Theres more about the aztez above) From Yours truely, Hernan Cortes

I Found my information at [] This Is Hernan Cortes....I found this on google images. That's what Hernan Looked like when he was with the Aztec.