Greg Jenner is joined in 16th-Century Mexico by Dr Amy Fuller and comedian Jen Brister to learn about conquistador Hernán Cortés and his translator Malintzin. Show more Greg Jenner is joined in ...

Leguizamo: There was a third important person at this diplomatic meet and greet ... and communicative bridge between the Spaniards and Moctezuma, because she is trilingual. Cortés makes note ...

Hernán Cortés meeting Moctezuma in 1519 holds some space in our North American imagination. Two trajectories of human development — long separated by time and distance — crossed in ...

In 1519, Cortes and 500-odd men landed on the shores ... killing its priests and imprisoning its ruler, Montezuma (a story illuminatingly told in Álvaro Enrigue’s splendid novel “You Dreamed ...

The fortunes of the kingdom of Moctezuma, however ... The hotheaded Alvarado lacked Cortes’s skill and diplomacy. During Cortes’s absence, Alvarado’s execution of many Aztec chiefs enraged ...

Versions of Two-Face and Joker are also involved in the movie; Two-Face is Hernán Cortés, one of the Spanish Conquistadors, and Joker is Yoka, a high priest who is an advisor to King Moctezuma.

Matthew Restall’s 2018 book “When Montezuma Met Cortes: the True Story of the Meeting That Changed History” and Camilla Townsend’s 2019 work, “Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs.” ...