Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: An Aztec Account of the Spanish Conquest

Fordham University provides an excerpt of an Aztec account of the initial encounter of Montezuma and the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes, as published by noted anthropologist Miguel Leon-Portilla. The meeting-turned-massacre, achingly described, marks the start of the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the destruction of the Aztec empire.