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Example sentences for: cortés
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Cortés married Doña Marina off to one of his lieutenants, Juan Jaramillo, and they had one daughter.
In the performances of some groups there is a queen, La Reina, but in others she might be called La Malinche, the Indian woman who became the mistress of Cortés, who represents innocence or the Church.
Grijalva’s stories focused Spanish attention on central Mexico, and in 1519 Hernan Cortés landed in Veracruz, to start an expedition that would end in the conquest of Moctezuma and the Aztec Empire.
She spoke both Nahuatl and Maya, among other Indian languages, and quickly learned Spanish, becoming Cortés’s translator and also his mistress.
When Hernán Cortés landed on the eastern shore of Mexico, he had with him sixteen horses and at least three breeds of cattle.