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In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures. “I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.” —Hernán CortésIt was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. Only one would survive the encounter. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico with a roughshod crew of adventurers and the intent to expand the Spanish empire. Along the way, this brash and roguish conquistador schemed to convert the native inhabitants to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in his intentions is one of the most remarkable—and tragic—aspects of this unforgettable story of conquest.In Tenochtitlán, the famed City of Dreams, Cortés met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, ruler of fifteen million people, and commander of the most powerful military machine in the Americas. Yet in less than two years, Cortés defeated the entire Aztec nation in one of the most astonishing military campaigns ever waged. Sometimes outnumbered in battle thousands-to-one, Cortés repeatedly beat seemingly impossible odds. Buddy Levy meticulously researches the mix of cunning, courage, brutality, superstition, and finally disease that enabled Cortés and his men to survive.Conquistador is the story of a lost kingdom—a complex and sophisticated civilization where floating gardens, immense wealth, and reverence for art stood side by side with bloodstained temples and gruesome rites of human sacrifice. It’s the story of Montezuma—proud, spiritual, enigmatic, and doomed to misunderstand the stranger he thought a god. Epic in scope, as entertaining as it is enlightening, Conquistador is history at its most riveting.Praise for Conquistador“Prodigiously researched and stirringly told, Conquistador is a rarity: an invaluable history lesson that also happens to be a page-turning read.”—Jeremy Schaap, bestselling author of Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History, and Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics “Sweeping and majestic . . . A pulse-quickening narrative.”—Neal Bascomb, author of Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin

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I was familiar with the broad outlines of the story of the conquest of Mexico but Levy really dissects the tale and, though he indulges in occasional bits of academic political correctness (he's a professor at Washington State), he doesn't wallow in it. Written in 2008, it appeared too early to be really "woke." He does tend to be harder on Cortez and the Spanish than on Montezuma and the Aztecs in terms of their motives and behavior but the book, on the whole, seems a fair portrayal.Levy at one point refers to all the tribes of MesoAmerica as "brothers" though I doubt that the 150,000+ Indians who joined Cortez to fight against the Aztecs would agree with that. As brutal as the Spanish could be at times, the Aztecs were mass murderers on an unimaginable scale (well, until the Nazis and Soviet Communists came along, anyway). It is really hard to feel any sympathy for them as the story of the destruction of their empire unfolds.As advanced as they were in areas like architecture and civil engineering, they were still stone-age primitives who never even invented the wheel (except, curiously, for use in childrens' toys) or an alphabet. And, of course, human sacrifice was the foundation of their religion. They had to kill people every day to guarantee that the sun would come up and there would be a next day.Cortez led a few hundred Spaniards and kept them together against incredible odds and hardships during a 2 1/2 year campaign. He put down several mutinies among his own men and he gave the Indians of several tribes which had been historically victimized by the Aztecs a rallying point.It was the courage and determination of Cortez which made his venture of 1519-21 a success. He really was "the indispensable man" in that endeavor.My main criticism is that the book needs more maps.

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