1. Conquest of Mexico by Cortes
... and had sex with his sister. Then next morning, realizing what he had done. Quetzalcoatl shamefully made a raft of snakes and left his kingdom, vowing to return to reclaim his treasure on the day "Ce Acatl," the day of the reed on the Aztec Calendar (Fuentes, 1992). News of the "New World" had spread rapidly across Europe, many became eager to ... , was hearing many messages that light-skinned men with strange animals (the horses) had landed in Mexico, which worried Moctezuma. He believed that Quetzalcoatl had come back to retake his treasure and his kingdom (Fuentes, 1992; Von Hagen, 19...
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