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| Contents | |
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| Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Notes | |
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| Aancient Mexico | |
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| Harmony and order | |
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| Palace of the white sedges | |
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| I see misfortune come | |
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| Not with love but with fear | |
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| Spain of the Golden Age | |
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| The golden years begin | |
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| The Pope must have been drunk | |
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| Better lands have never been discovered | |
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| What I saw was so splendid | |
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| A great Lord born in brocade | |
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| Sweating, hunger and hard work | |
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| To Know the Secrets of the Land | |
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| A gentlemanly pirate | |
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| The advantage of having horse and cannon | |
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| As much as where Solomon took the gold for the temple | |
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| A dragon's head for a "Florentine" glass | |
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| They received him with trumpets | |
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| If I continue, shall I win? | |
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| To leave none of us alive | |
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| This cruelty restored order | |
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| Another new world of great cities and towers | |
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| Cort�s and Montezuma | |
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| An image of Quetzalcoatl | |
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| Bees and spiders make works of art | |
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| Something must be done for the Lord | |
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| Cort�s' Plans Undone | |
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| The King, our lord, is more King than other Kings | |
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| A voice very deep and hoarse as if it came from a vault | |
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| To cut off Don Hernando's ears | |
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| The blood of the chieftains ran like water | |
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| As a song you were born, Montezuma | |
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| Fortune spins her wheel | |
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| The Spanish Recovery | |
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| The sweetness of death by the obsidian knife | |
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| It was convenient to impose the said punishment | |
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| My principal intention and motive in making this war | |
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| They were all lords | |
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| The Battle for Tenochtitlan | |
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| Remember the bold hearts | |
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| A great harvest of captives | |
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| Such mad dogs | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| The general exodus | |
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| The songs and voices scarcely ceased | |
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| The clause in Adam's will which excludes France | |
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| An absolute monarch | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Appendices | |
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| The population of old Mexico | |
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| A summary of Montezuma's tribute | |
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| Mexican calendars | |
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| Spanish moneyc.1520 | |
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| Cort�s' ladies | |
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| Genealogies | |
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| The emperors of Mexico | |
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| The Spanish and imperial royal families | |
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| Cort�s and his relations | |
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| The transformation of the Mexican royal family | |
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| Cort�s' arrival in the nobility | |
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| Unpublished Documents | |
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| ort�s' father Mart�n Cort�s in Medell�n | |
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| ort�s' grandfather Diego Alfon Altamirano | |
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| ort�s' journey to America, 1506 | |
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| letter from Cort�s in Mexico, 6 July 1519 | |
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| ontezuma's concession of power, 1520 | |
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| ew evidence about the death of Catalina | |
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| ort�s, art and loyalty | |
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| iego Vel�zquez's punishments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Sources | |
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| Index | |