{"product_id":"0887254672012","title":"SCIENCE FICTION (LTD)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePurchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hernán Cortés, Pedro de Valdivia, Hernando de Soto, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, José Calderón, Francisco Zurbarán, Casiodoro de Reina, Rafael Gordillo, Pedro Cieza de León, Gonzalo de Sandoval, Ángel Manuel Cuéllar, Hernando Franco, Carolina Coronado, Antonio Álvarez Pérez, García de Silva Figueroa, Manuel García, Juan Meléndez Valdés, Valentín González, Juan Donoso Cortés, Benito Arias Montano, Roberto Marina, José de Espronceda, Ruy López de Segura, Bartolomé de Torres Naharro, David Cortés Caballero, Jorge Camacho, Juanma, Enrique Fernando Ortiz Moruno, Diego Rangel, Fernando Silva, Faustino Arévalo, Isabel Gemio, Edu Moya, García López de Cárdenas, Bernardo Domínguez, Dulce Chacón, Felipe Trigo, Julián Sánchez, Juan Ramón Ruano, Vicente Antonio García de La Huerta, Luis Chamizo Trigueros. Excerpt: Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valle de Oaxaca (Spanish pronunciation: ) (1485 December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the King of Castile, in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Born in Medellín, Spain, to a family of lesser nobility, Cortés chose to pursue a livelihood in the New World. He went to Hispaniola and later to Cuba, where he received an encomienda and, for a short time, became alcalde (magistrate) of the second Spanish town founded on the island. In 1519, he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, an expedition which he partly funded. His enmity with the Governor of Cuba, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, resulted in the recall of the expedition at the last moment, an ... More: http:\/\/booksllc.net\/?id=14013\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ADA [WEA 1-","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47089886691568,"sku":"0887254672012","price":30.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/0887254672012_p0.jpg?v=1763896335","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0887254672012","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}