Hernando+Cortez+by+Mary


 * Hernando Cortes was born in 1485 and he died in 1547
 * He died near a place called Seville on December 2nd 1547
 * His parents' names were Martin Cortes and Catalina Pizarro Altamirano.
 * He was born in a small town called Medellin in southwestern Spain.
 * He was a soldier and a farmer before he was an explorer.
 * After he was a soldier and farmer, he became and explorer and started exploring.
 * He was searching for gold and he noticed that the Aztec empire had a lot of gold and thought that if he could take over the Aztec, then he could have a huge amount of soldiers for his army **//and//** he could get all the gold.so he invaded and conquered an Aztec empire populated by more than five **million** people.