Hernan Cortes: A Brave New World

All those fortunes discovered in America and other parts of the world made their way into the facets of knowledge, mainly in Europe. The European explorers made all the possible efforts to reach to those cities so that they can become part of the discoverers, and in the process be in possession of the much-anticipated gold and silver. “Every explorer in the European region had the anticipation of reaching to one of those rich cities and become an inheritor of the fanciful gold mines.” What such explorers did not have in mind are the separation of the real towns and the whimsical ones that were in existence only in the spirit of the people especially with the idea of engaging their thoughts in other areas other than the real cities for capture. …show more content…
Those explorers did not take their time to draw the lines between the reality cities and those that were just in the imaginations of people. The explorers that fell for the myths were mainly those that had an earlier experience of conquering some of those vibrant cities, especially in America. “Such explorers included Hernan Cortes as he had previously engaged in the capturing of several cities including the empire of Montezuma.” It was, therefore, difficult for him to fathom that the city would exist only in dreams; therefore, the consistency efforts of looking for the town despite its being