Conquest
Subtitle: Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: April 7, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 832
ISBN-13: 9780671511043
Subjects: American history: pre-Columbian period, BCE to c 1500; ca. 1480-1520; History: American; Emperor of Mexico,; History - General History; Montezuma; Mexico; II,; Latin America - Mexico; History / General; Cortâes, Hernâan,; 1485-1547; Conquest, 1519-1540; History
First sentence: THE BEAUTIFUL POSITION of the Mexican capital, Tenochtitlan, could scarcely have been improved upon.