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Essay heading: Hernan Cortes
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Seeing the gold and other valuable riches around, Cortes was overcome by greed. He ordered his troops to pillage the advanced village and take as much gold as they could. The sheer amount of gold sacked was an amount larger than Hernan had ever seen before. Sadly for Cortes most of this gold was left behind running from a fierce Indian counter-attack...
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Sadly for Cortes most of this gold was left behind running from a fierce Indian counter-attack. By the time he retreated from Mexico in 1521, the Aztec empire was in shambles and Cortes had left his mark in history.
` Cortes's death greatly differed from his life of fame and riches. Having spent a great deal of his own money to finance expeditions, he was now heavily in debt...
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