Before revision: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 2021 Mexico Meeting of Cortés and Moctezuma, 17th c. depiction It wasn't until Spanish expansion into modern-day Mexico that Spanish explorers were able to find wealth on the scale that they had been hoping for.
After revision: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 2021 Mexico Meeting of Cortés and Moctezuma, 17th c. depiction With Spanish expansion into central Mexico under conqueror Hernán Cortés and the conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519-1521) Spanish explorers were able to find wealth on the scale that they had long hoped for.