Bernal Díaz del Castillo (c. 1492 – 3 February 1584) was a Spanish conquistador who participated as a soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire under...
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1568 by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584), who served in three Mexican expeditions: those of...
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Hernán Cortés (redirect from Hernan, Marques Del Valle de Oaxaca Cortes)
life. The account of the conquest of the Aztec Empire written by Bernal Díaz del Castillo, gives a detailed description of Hernán Cortés's physical appearance:...
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Moctezuma II (section Bernal Díaz del Castillo)
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal (1963). The Conquest of New Spain. Translated by Cohen, John M. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0140441239. Díaz, Bernal (2008)...
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later in other parts of Europe. Much later, Spanish conqueror Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a well-seasoned participant in the conquest of Central Mexico...
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Human sacrifice in Aztec culture (section Bernal Díaz)
observations of and wrote reports about the practice of human sacrifice. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, who participated in the Cortés expedition, made frequent mention...
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("True History of the Conquest of New Spain") by Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Bernal Díaz del Castillo served as a rodelero, or soldier armed with sword...
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the weapon as a "kind of a saw sword". According to conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo, the macuahuitl was 0.91 to 1.22 m long, and 75 mm wide, with a...
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never been heard of or seen before, not even dreamed about. — Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain The city was divided into four zones...
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eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors such as Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo; and especially from 16th- and 17th-century descriptions of Aztec...
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