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Conquest — Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico

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Conquest — Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico
Full titleConquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico
AuthorHugh Thomas
Published1993
Pages848
RecommendedOnce
BuyAmazon
Why it’s on the listThomas’s full-length account of 1519-1521 from both sides of the encounter — the Mexica state as it actually worked, and the improvised expedition that brought it down.

Where I heard about it

  • A reply to @typesfast — in the thread under his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 2025).

Connections

  • What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
  • Mexico · History · Discovery — where this sits in the corpus.
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