Chicanos Studies

Jazmin Lopez

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• Born in Medellín, Extremadura Spain 1485• Martin Cortes and Catalina Pizarro

Altamirano a good family, but in reduced circumstances

• Was sent to the University of Salamanca but returned two years letter and this is how he determined a life of adventure.

• Travel his fist time with Nicolas de Ovando who was about to sail for Santo Domingo accidently his love adventure stopped him at home, and the expedition sailed without him.

• He got into the military service under the celebrated Gonzalo de Cordova.

• Returning to Medellin, he was able in 1504 to sail from San Lucar for Santo Domingo

• Died near Seville on December 2, 1547

• 1st Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca (1485–December 1547)

• Was a Spanish conquistador who initiated the conquest of the Aztec Empired on behalf of Charles V, king of Castile and Holy Roman Emperor, in the early 16th century.

• He was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

• Died near Seville on December 2, 1547 deth

• Hernán Cortés, death:

• On December 2, 1547 Hernán Cortés, Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of Mexico, defeating the Aztec Empire (1519–21), dies in Castilleja de la Cuesta, near Seville, Spain