دانلود کتاب The End of The Aztecs

History offers no more astonishing instance of the part that chance plays in our lives than the catastrophic slow-motion clash between Spanish explorer Hernando Cortes and the Aztec leader Montezuma. The landing of Cortes and his men on the shore of Mexico in 1519 came as a shock to the Aztecs. Everything that followed from that moment to the destruction of an entire civilization was a succession of stunning surprises:• The surprise that Cortes would step into a land where so many wanted to revolt against the indigenous central government.• The surprise that the Spaniards could overcome the enormous military odds against them.• The surprise that Cortes could take Montezuma captive in his own capital.• The surprise that the Spaniards could level the entire city of Tenochtitlan.• The surprise that illness could annihilate tens of millions of people...