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Hernán Cortés (1485-1547)Get Rating Widget!

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Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire (1519-21) and won Mexico for the Spanish crown. (Add picture)

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irishgit (146)
02/11/2005
As greedy a butcher as ever drew breath, he managed to discover the only people on the face of the earth with as little claim to humanity as himself.

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maikuhaiku (1)
02/11/2005
I think cortes can be best summed up in one word...murderer.

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Redoedo (40)
08/22/2004
A ruthless bastard if there ever was one, Cortes single-handedly destroyed an entire civilization out of greed. I don't doubt his contributions to the colonization of the Americas, but as a human being, this man had no redeeming qualities.

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grouper (1)
07/28/2004
Recent discoveries along with DNA research indicate that the first Americans were in fact Europeans from Norhern Spain (circa 17000 years ago) and had since be replaced by asiatics now known as American Indians. Perhaps Cortez was reclaiming for Europeans what was theirs to begin With

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CapAnson (1)
07/24/2004
If the Aztecs hadn't of thought the dirty smelly white man slaughtering their people wasn't a sun god, they might not have gone the way of the dodo..

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Moosekarloff (18)
10/21/2003
Brutal, avaricious, soulless butcher who destroyed a civilization because of that poisoned European lust for gold. The Spanish, mutant dogs that they are, barfed up quite a few of those money-mad piles of crap wrapped in human flesh: Pizarro, Coronado, etc. All for gold that essentially didn't exist. Ah, such noble spirits motivated the European quest during the Age of Discovery!!! And to think that back in our grammar school days, we were taught that these snotrags were heroes...

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StanUzbeck (15)
09/27/2003
Psychopathic murderer of the Aztecs. Brutally pragmatic and would not allow any sense of human compassion or justice to deter his ambitions for one second. I suppose he was a good explorer, but one of the worst human beings.

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help me (0)
06/21/2003
a**hole. but the Aztec empire wasn't that great either so whatever

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Macc (0)
05/02/2003
He destroyed one of the world's great civilizations.

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Lord of the Waves (0)
01/17/2002
you people just don't like winners. Cortes won. Thats that. Its just like when the moors took spain.

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ellajedlicka21 (5)
10/19/2001
He overtook the Aztec people. A brutal dictator.

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magellan (164)
03/28/2001
Cortes the killer (there's a great Neil Young song by the same title) is the reason that most of Central America and Mexico speak Spanish today. His conquest of Aztec Mexico was among the most brutal of all European colonializations.

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