1 / 9

Hernando Cortes 1485-1547

Hernando Cortes 1485-1547. By: Fatme Mahmoud. Explorers name. Hernando Cortes Country he sailed for: Spain Date he explored: 1504. Cortes’s early life. Hernando Cortes was born in 1485 and he was Spanish. He died in 1547 In a town near Seville, Spain.

shea-oneill
Download Presentation

Hernando Cortes 1485-1547

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Hernando Cortes 1485-1547 By: Fatme Mahmoud

  2. Explorers name • Hernando Cortes • Country he sailed for: Spain • Date he explored: 1504

  3. Cortes’s early life • Hernando Cortes was born in 1485 and he was Spanish. • He died in 1547 In a town near Seville, Spain. • In the 1520 Cortes and his army retreated from the Aztec Capital. • Cortes was eager for fame and fortune.

  4. What was Cortes looking for • Hernando Cortes was looking for things that made him rich like gifts of gold and spices • Cortes knew the Aztecs had gold so he killed them and stole there gold.

  5. The Route Cortes took • Hernando Cortes explored La Paz to Mexico and back to La Paz. • Here is a picture of the route he took.

  6. Interesting things about Cortes • Some interesting things about Cortes is that Cortes was forced to go to Mexico and find gold. • Cortes captured Montezuma in his city. • Velazquez sent forces to arrest Cortes and he was forced to leave

  7. Discoveries • Cortes went to Cuba and found out that Mexico had good riches

  8. Additional facts • Velazquez canceled the expedition but Hernando disregarded his orders and went to Mexico with eleven ships and also with a small army

  9. Were I got the information • Grolier website: Cortes Hernando (1485-1547 ) • Google pictures (Hernando Cortes ) and Grolier www.Grolier.com • Book name Hernando Cortes Author: R. Conrad Stein

More Related