TY - BOOK AU - Greek,Joe TI - Hernán Cortés: conquistador, colonizer, and destroyer of the Aztec Empire T2 - Spotlight on explorers and colonization SN - 9781477788127 (library bound) PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Rosen Publishing KW - Cortés, Hernán, KW - Explorers KW - Mexico KW - Biography KW - Spain KW - Conquerors KW - History KW - Conquest, 1519-1540 KW - Discovery and exploration KW - Spanish KW - Illustrated works KW - lcgft KW - Biographies N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Early life in Spain -- Setting sail for the new world -- Conquest of Cuba -- First steps toward Mexico -- Meeting Mexico's natives -- A message from the Aztec ruler -- Marching toward the Aztec capital -- Welcomed by Moctezuma -- Cortes takes control -- An arrest party comes for Cortes -- Aztec anger boils over -- Escape from Tenochtitlán -- Cortes regroups as Aztecs fall ill -- The fall of the Aztec empire -- The conqueror of New Spain -- Fall from power -- Final expedition and death -- A disputed legacy ER -