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Hernan Cortez was intruding the Aztec empire, loyal to King Montezuma III, in order to bring gold back to Spain and become very rich. When Montezuma met him, he mistook him for their white-skinned, feathered-serpent god, Quetzalcoatl (ket-sal-ko-tull). Believing that was his identity, he offered as much gold as Cortez pleased. However, becoming greedy, Cortez' identity was discovered by Montezuma's nephew, Cuatemoc. There became a great battle, where Montezuma's side was slaughtered. Cortez drowned with the weight of his gold on an Aztec lake.

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he was looking for gold and jewls

On his last exposition he was pursueing a legend of streets of gold at lost city in mtns near coast of Calif

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Mexico He was looking for gold and all of the power that he could get. He was looking for gold and all of the power that he could get.

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he was looking for a westward route to Asia.

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for Mexico he was looking for gold and silver

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Nothing. Cortes' greed was too intense for him to want anything else but gold. He went to extreme lengths to get his hands on the gold, murdering tens of thousands of people.

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Wealth and prestige.

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gold and jewels

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he wanted to find gold

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