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|fullname = Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano | |fullname = Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano | ||
|alias = Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca | |alias = Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca | ||
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|crimes = Invasion<br>Mass Murder<br>Usurpation<br>Genocide | |crimes = Invasion<br>Mass Murder<br>Usurpation<br>Genocide | ||
|type of villain = Xenophobic Tyrant | |type of villain = Xenophobic Tyrant | ||
}} | }}{{Quote|I came here to get gold, not to till the soil like a peasant.|Hernan Cortés on his motives for travelling to the New World.}} | ||
'''Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca''' (/kɔːrˈtɛs/; <small>Spanish: </small>[eɾˈnaŋ koɾˈtes ðe monˈroj i piˈθaro]; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish ''Conquistador'' who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. He was distantly related to [[Francisco Pizarro]]. | '''Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca''' (/kɔːrˈtɛs/; <small>Spanish: </small>[eɾˈnaŋ koɾˈtes ðe monˈroj i piˈθaro]; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish ''Conquistador'' who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. He was distantly related to [[Francisco Pizarro]]. | ||