What Euro-Conquistadors found in Mexico

Voices of the Past, 7/10/21; Xochitl, Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Awestruck European "Conqueror" describes alien world of Mexico City (Tenochtitlan 1519)

(Voices of the Past) This is from the memoir of Bernal Diaz, extracts of The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexican and New Spain" translated from the original Spanish by John Ingram Lockhard, F.R.A.S. (gutenberg.org/ebooks/32475).

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