# Hernán Cortés

> He commanded fewer than 600 men when he landed on the Mexican coast in 1519, yet within two years the Aztec Empire had fallen and the map of the Americas was redrawn. The conquest wasn't military genius alone - it was alliance, interpreter, and a willingness to ignore every order that stood in his way.

*Spanish conquistador*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Historical Figure ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645))
- **Category:** Historical Figures
- **Country:** Spain
- **Born:** 1485
- **Died:** 1547-12-02
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born around 1485 to minor Spanish nobility in Medellín, Cortés left for the New World seeking fortune, settling first in Hispaniola and then Cuba, where he gained an encomienda and briefly served as magistrate. In 1519 he was chosen to lead a third expedition to the mainland, partly funding it himself, but when the governor of Cuba tried to cancel the voyage at the last moment, Cortés sailed anyway. On the continent he forged alliances with indigenous groups against the Aztecs and relied on a native woman, Doña Marina, as interpreter - she later bore his first son. When the governor sent men to arrest him for mutiny, Cortés defeated them and absorbed their troops, then wrote directly to the king claiming credit for his victories. After toppling the Aztec Empire, he received the title Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca, though the more powerful position of viceroy went to a higher-born nobleman. He returned to Spain in 1541 and died there six years later.

## Fame
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- **Attention shift:** 6.4 / 100
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- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Historical Figures, #Scientist, #Chemistry, #Literature, #Spain, #Europe, #Early Modern Era

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