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… numbers, advanced Spanish weaponry ultimately gave them the upper hand. With firearms and steel blades at his disposal, just one Spaniard might annihilate dozens or even hundreds of opponents: “On a sudden, they speared and thrust people into shreds,” wrote one indigenous chronicler, having witnessed the terrifying impact of European arms. “Others were beheaded in one swipe… Others tried to run in vain from the butchery, their innards falling from them and entangling their very feet.”
About Cortez
Throughout his career, Cortés’s personal life held a selfish, manipulative streak. In 1514 he married a young Spanish woman named …