Illustration of Aztec priests leading human victims up the steps to the alter for sacrifice in the temples Mexico, where Hernan Cortes discovered 136,000 skulls. Hernan Cortes de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (1485 - December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century

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