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Conquistadores : a new history of Spanish discovery and conquest /

Over the few short decades that followed Christopher Columbus's first landing in the Caribbean in 1492, Spain conquered the two most formidable civilizations of the Americas, the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru. Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro and the other explorers and soldiers that t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cervantes, Fernando (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
Edition:	First North American edition.
Subjects:	America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish. Conquerors > Spain > History. Latin America > History > To 1600. Conquerors > America > History. HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal. HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century. HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries.

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