Heroes and Villains - Hernan Cortes 3/6 (CC)
10:01 MinutosHeroes and Villains - Hernan Cortes Part 3 If youre a lover of 16th-century history, best steer clear of this. A drama documentary is always going to flounder trying to re-create the clash-of-civilisations story of Hernan Cortess conquest of Mexico - its on too horrific a scale. (Maybe Hollywood should try.) But at least Brian McCardies gutsy performance in the Heroes and Villains strand gives us a flavour of what might have driven Cortes - a mixture of piety, dread and sheer, mad-eyed folly. Watching McCardie, hedged with re-enactments and computer effects, you can just about swallow that a deranged adventurer and a handful of men, with no authority from the King of Spain and supplies pinched from the Governor of Cuba, could bring down the Aztec empire, which included a city (Tenochtitlan) bigger than anything in Europe.
HERNAN CORTÉS
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Heroes and Villains - Hernan Cortes 2/6 (CC)
10:00 MinutosHeroes and Villains - Hernan Cortes Part 2 If youre a lover of 16th-century history, best steer clear of this. A drama documentary is always going to flounder trying to re-create the clash-of-civilisations story of Hernan Cortess conquest of Mexico - its on too horrific a scale. (Maybe Hollywood should try.) But at least Brian McCardies gutsy performance in the Heroes and Villains strand gives us a flavour of what might have driven Cortes - a mixture of piety, dread and sheer, mad-eyed folly. Watching McCardie, hedged with re-enactments and computer effects, you can just about swallow that a deranged adventurer and a handful of men, with no authority from the King of Spain and supplies pinched from the Governor of Cuba, could bring down the Aztec empire, which included a city (Tenochtitlan) bigger than anything in Europe.
Hernán Cortés-Conquista del Imperio Azteca
04:16 MinutosFue hijo único de un hidalgo extremeño, llamado Martín Cortés y de Catalina Pizarro Altamirano. Por vía materna era primo segundo de Francisco Pizarro, quien posteriormente conquistó el imperio inca (no confundir con otro Francisco Pizarro, quien se unió a Cortés en la conquista de los aztecas). Como otros hidalgos, su padre lo envió a los catorce años a estudiar leyes a Salamanca, ciudad que abandonó dos años más tarde, movido por su afán de aventuras. Tras varios intentos fallidos, por una parte, de embarcar para las Indias, y, por otra, de participar en las campañas de Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba en Italia, finalmente, en la primavera de 1504, zarpó hacia la isla de La Española, donde se instaló como plantador y funcionario colonial.
Naturaleza
52 SegundosNaturaleza
La llegada de Hernán Cortés a México
06:17 MinutosLlegada de Hernán Cortés a las costas de México, establecimiento, tropas españolas y personalidad del conquistador.
Hernan Cortes
02:12 MinutosHernando Cortés Monroy Pizarro Altamirano, Malinche, (Medellín, provincia de Badajoz, 1485 -- ? Castilleja de la Cuesta, provincia de Sevilla, 2 de diciembre de 1547), conquistador español del imperio azteca, es decir, lo que hoy es el centro de México.
Heroes and Villains - Hernan Cortes 1/6 (CC)
10:01 MinutosHeroes and Villains - Hernan Cortes Part 1 If youre a lover of 16th-century history, best steer clear of this. A drama documentary is always going to flounder trying to re-create the clash-of-civilisations story of Hernan Cortess conquest of Mexico - its on too horrific a scale. (Maybe Hollywood should try.) But at least Brian McCardies gutsy performance in the Heroes and Villains strand gives us a flavour of what might have driven Cortes - a mixture of piety, dread and sheer, mad-eyed folly. Watching McCardie, hedged with re-enactments and computer effects, you can just about swallow that a deranged adventurer and a handful of men, with no authority from the King of Spain and supplies pinched from the Governor of Cuba, could bring down the Aztec empire, which included a city (Tenochtitlan) bigger than anything in Europe.
