Cortés and the Aztec Conquest, by Irwin R. Blacker
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Cortés and the Aztec Conquest, by Irwin R. Blacker
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In three years, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, leading a few hundred Spanish soldiers, overcame a centuries-old empire that could put tens of thousands of warriors on the field. Even after his god-like reputation had been shattered, and his horses and cannons were no longer regarded as supernatural, his ruthless daring took him on to victory. Yet in the end, his prize was not the gold that he had sought, but the destruction of the entire Aztec civilization.
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- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Released on: 2015-10-20
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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful. well written, quick-paced book about the extraordinary conquest of Mexico By Mageditor At the entrance to the National Museum of the U.S. Navy, there is a small cannon carried by Cortes’s soldiers all the way to the Mexican capital through the jungle. It helped them accomplish one of the most extraordinary feats in history – the conquest of the mighty Aztec empire by a relatively small force of Spanish conquistadors.Ever since seeing that 500-year-old artifact, I had been looking for a book that would tell that amazing story, and so I was delighted to find this book that covers Cortes and his era in a concise manner with lots of interesting details.The book begins with a helpful chapter on the first two expeditions sent out to the west from Cuba during which the Spanish discovered the Maya, Yucatan, and the southern coast of Mexico. The second chapter tells how young Cortes was picked to lead the third expedition by Governor Velasquez, and the dramatic story of how Cortes ignored the recall and arrest orders of the governor (who realized too late that the ambitious Cortes was becoming a force unto himself).The book is a quick read, well written and paced. Perhaps that’s because the author, Irwin Blacker, wrote screenplays for television shows. He also published 22 fiction and nonfiction books according to The New York Times, including Elements of Screenwriting: A Guide for Film and Television Writing.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Will get a high school student a B for a history report - maybe By David B. The material is flatly and extremely simply presented often with references to contexts without any real exploration of those contextual issues. No sources are listed that date after the early 1960s - over 50 years ago. There are no maps of the activities, marchs, or battles and the visual accompaniments are extremely limited. Even a simple topographical map of Mexico is not provided although a written description is.Considering the price, this book is no bargain.While this book can be used as a source for a high school or freshman college report on the Mexican Conquest; it, by itself, is not a sufficiently rich resource to get a student a grade beyond a B - at kindest.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Not much respect for a remarkable military and diplomatic accomplishment By Richard Coen I was disappointed in this work. It is true that relatively little is known about some of the details of Cortes' conquest of the Aztec empire, but the author omits many of the details that are known, and gives little information about tactics used by both sides. The fact that Cortes was able to prevail while running a fever most of the time and commanding only about 400 troops armed with weapons that were not actually much better than those of the Aztecs, even when Montezuma could, and did, put over 5000 troops at once in the field to oppose him is barely discussed. Cortes' ability to make allianes with other tribes previously conquered by the Aztecs and his use of tactics are remarkable, and are not well described. The author's comments on the lack of respect for such an important historical character in Mexico are interesting, but an expansion on why this is so would have mane for a better work.
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