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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Hernán Cortés (redirect from Hernan, Marques Del Valle de Oaxaca Cortes)
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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Moctezuma II (section Bernal Díaz del Castillo)
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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Human sacrifice in Aztec culture (section Bernal Díaz)
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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Cuernavaca (section Chapitel del Calvario)
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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