As the once-great Aztec empire lay in ruins, an illegitimate child was born to its conqueror, Hernan Cortes. The product of a union between the famous conquistador and his Mayan slave woman and translator, Malinche, the child was named Martin Cortes-remembered today by Mexicans as the first mestizo , emblematic of Mexico's origins. In The New World of Martin Cortes , Anna Lanyon takes us on a journey of...
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