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    Bernal Díaz del Castillo (c. 1492 – 3 February 1584) was a Spanish conquistador who participated as a soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire under...
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    1568 by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584), who served in three Mexican expeditions: those of...
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    life. The account of the conquest of the Aztec Empire written by Bernal Díaz del Castillo, gives a detailed description of Hernán Cortés's physical appearance:...
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    Díaz del Castillo, Bernal (1963). The Conquest of New Spain. Translated by Cohen, John M. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0140441239. Díaz, Bernal (2008)...
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    later in other parts of Europe. Much later, Spanish conqueror Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a well-seasoned participant in the conquest of Central Mexico...
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    observations of and wrote reports about the practice of human sacrifice. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, who participated in the Cortés expedition, made frequent mention...
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    the weapon as a "kind of a saw sword". According to conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo, the macuahuitl was 0.91 to 1.22 m long, and 75 mm wide, with a...
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    never been heard of or seen before, not even dreamed about. — Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain The city was divided into four zones...
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    eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors such as Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo; and especially from 16th- and 17th-century descriptions of Aztec...
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    ("True History of the Conquest of New Spain") by Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Bernal Díaz del Castillo served as a rodelero, or soldier armed with sword...
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    S2CID 191613689. Del Rio, Fanny (2009). La verdadera historia de Malinche. México, D.F.: Grijalbo. ISBN 978-607-429-593-1. Díaz del Castillo, Bernal (1963) [1632]...
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  • Conquistadors including famous Conquistador and memoir-writer Bernal Díaz del Castillo into several military campaigns to conquer or reconquer sections...
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    Writing many years after his journey across Petén, conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo called the city Tayasal; this appears to have been a Hispanicisation...
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    and Díaz Ordaz's father took a number of jobs and the family frequently moved. He claimed ancestry with conqueror-chronicler Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Gustavo's...
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  • the town of Nandiumé and Chiapas to the Soctona ethnic group. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, in his chronicle of the True History of the Conquest of New Spain...
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    account. However other contemporaries, among them most notably Bernal Díaz del Castillo, criticised his work as being full of inaccuracies, and one which...
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    Grijalva River by the Spaniards, and according to the chronicles of Bernal Diaz del Castillo, it was a league from the coast. The city was located on a small...
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    both Aztecs and their subjects. It strongly influenced them, as Bernal Díaz del Castillo repeatedly attests.[citation needed] Moctezuma sent a group of...
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  • Chicomácatl, or as he was referred to as by the Spanish conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo, "Cacique Gordo": 91  (in Spanish, Fat Cacique), was the ruler...
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    believe the year to be 1345. The city was described by conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo as a grand, well-ordered metropolis. However, the story of its...
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    Spaniards from Castilla del Oro presented themselves in Cuba to Diego Velázquez, the governor (and relative of Bernal Díaz del Castillo), who promised them...
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    In 1908, he made a complete translation, with annotations, of Bernal Díaz del Castillo's Historia. His translation remains the standard English edition...
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    tepoztopilli was equally useful for slashing and thrusting. Conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo mentions that on one occasion his armour was pierced by an Aztec...
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  • chronologists were witnesses to this daily ritual. One of these, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, extrapolated in his book, The True History of the Conquest of...
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  • Cortés Juan de la Cosa Bartolomé de Las Casas Alonso Díaz Moreno Bernal Díaz del Castillo Melchor Díaz Ambrosius Ehinger Martín Estete Juan de Estrada Rávago...
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  • Southern tip of Africa Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 to 1496, precise birth date is uncertain–1584), Spanish conquistador Federico Díaz Legórburu, Venezuelan...
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    small fish. Writing at the time of the Spanish conquistadors, Bernal Díaz del Castillo documented a feast enjoyed by Europeans hosted by Hernán Cortés...
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    of Peru. Contemporary historians of the Conquistadors, such as Bernal Díaz del Castillo, recorded them. Although records are incomplete, one historian...
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  • American drummer Rainier Castillo (born 1985), Filipino actor Randy Castillo (1950–2002), American rock drummer Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1581), Spanish...
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    Coadnabaced in his letters to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Bernal Díaz del Castillo used the name Cuautlavaca in his chronicles. The coat-of-arms of...
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