In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico and made his way to the Aztec capital. Miguel Leon­Portilla, a Mexican anthropologist, gathered accounts by the Aztecs, some of which were ...

After years of serving the ruling chief of Tabasco, she fell into the hands of Hernán Cortés in 1519. It's believed she was only 15 or 16 years old. Malinche started as a domestic slave to ...

It was Spanish mapmakers after Hernán Cortés in 1519 conquered the land now called Mexico who started linking the water body with the Mēxihcah, which is what Aztecs called themselves.