Question: a spanish military leader who fought against the native peoples of the americas was called

title: Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
text: In the sources recorded by Franciscan Bernardino de Sahagún and Dominican Diego Durán , there are accounts of events that were interpreted as supernatural omens of the conquest . These two accounts are full - blown narratives from the viewpoint of the Spanish opponents . Most first - hand accounts about the conquest of the Aztec Empire were written by Spaniards : Hernán Cortés ' letters to Charles V , Holy Roman Emperor and the first - person narrative of Bernal Díaz del Castillo , The True History of the Conquest of New Spain . The primary sources from the native people affected as a result of the conquest are seldom used , because they tend to reflect the views of a particular native group , such as the Tlaxcalans . Indigenous accounts were written in pictographs as early as 1525 . Later accounts were written in the native tongue of the Aztec and other native peoples of central Mexico , Nahuatl .