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Hernán Cortés
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Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st
Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca
(; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a
Spanish
Conquistador
who led an expedition that caused the
fall of the Aztec Empire
and brought large portions of mainland
Mexico
under the rule of the
King of Castile
in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers who began the first phase of the
Spanish colonization of the Americas
.
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