Look at Cortez's description of Tenochtitlán...............paraphrasing...........he said the streets were lined with gold..........................so after finding so much.........just about everywhere they looked.........just what is so enduring about El Dorado???  The disappearances of the explorers...............?  Reports of women warriors........tall and white??

Unique Facts about Mexico: Hernan Cortes - Sheppard Software

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Unique Facts about Mexico: Hernan Cortes. ... When Cortés told the defeated soldiers about the city of gold, Tenochtitlán, they agreed to join him. (Narváez lost ...

Hernán Cortés - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish .... This was probably a fair description of a 16-year-old boy who had returned ... returning from the Indies, who told of discovery and conquest, gold, Indians, and .... Leaving a hundred men in Veracruz, Cortés marched on Tenochtitlan in ...

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Hernán Cortés - New World Encyclopedia

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This was probably a fair description of a 16-year-old boy who had returned home ..... When Cortés told the defeated soldiers about the city of gold, Tenochtitlan, ...

Tenochtitlán: History of Aztec Capital - Live Science

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May 23, 2013 - Tenochtitlán was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. ... It was largely destroyed by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés after a ... Its merchandise included “ornaments of gold and silver, lead, brass, ...

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Cortes and Aztec Gold - American University

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1 The Siege of Tenochtitlán, according to histories, paintings and chronicles, ... Egyptian hieroglyphs from as early as 2600 B.C. describe gold, and gold is .... of Hernán Cortés on Mexican shores in 1519, with 550 men and 16 horses in tow.

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Relaciones de Hernán Cortés al Emperador Carlos V. Colegidas e ... faces and two gold soles for sandals, and some other things of little value. ..... written description of the conquest of Tenochtitlan, penned in both Spanish and Nahuatl.

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Jul 26, 2014 - ... conquistador Hernan Cortes arrived on the outskirts of Tenochtitlan, ... Montezuma's offering of gold to Cortés and his men was done in the ...

Letters from Hernán Cortés - American Historical Association

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Cartas y relaciones de Hernan Cortés al emperador Carlos V. Edited by ... were his descriptions of the Valley of Mexico, particularly Tenochtitlan, and his ..