History of the Conquest of Mexico

(Note: This project had some missing and duplicate sections. This has been corrected as of July 9, 2010. The affected sections were 12, 13, 27, 28, 33, & 34.)<br><br> Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,<br>And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;<br>Round many western islands have I been<br>Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.<br>Oft of one wide expanse had I been told<br>That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;<br>Yet never did I breathe its pure serene<br>Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.<br>Then felt I like some watcher of the skies<br>When a new planet swims into his ken;<br>Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes<br>He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men<br>Look'd at each other with a wild surmise -<br>Silent, upon a peak in Darien. - Keats<br><br>Prescott’s classic and beautifully written work describes what Cortez and his men went on to do, and how it was that they came to destroy the empire of the Aztecs - Written by hefyd