Today's American Minute — & Cortés
Was it a Pre-Columbian Paradise?: The Aztec Empire, Montezuma, & Cortés - American Minute with Bill Federer
& Cortés Montezuma Was it a Pre-Columbian Paradise?: The Aztec Empire
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a soldier who served with Cortés, recorded ... "Cortés said many other things very well expressed, which they would report them to their prince Montezuma. Cortés also told them that one of the objects for which our great Emperor had sent us to their country was to abolish human sacrifices and the other evil rites which they practiced."