Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
The Narrative of Some Things of New Spain and of the Great City of Temestitan is one of the sources for the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire dating from the 16th century, one of the many surviving contemporary Spanish accounts from the period of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and central Mexico (1519–1521). However, conqueror accounts which highlight individual deeds worthy of rewards from the Spanish crown (a genre called "probanzas" or "relaciones de méritos y servicios," the Anonymous Conqueror's account is descriptive of indigenous life at the time of the conquest.