Hernan Cortes was contracted by the King of Spain, Charles V, to travel to the New World in search of riches and treasures. In his letter to Charles, Cortes’s argument seemed to take on an almost hyperbolical tone. He seems to have exaggerated his claims in order to make the New World sound like a more tantalizing investment for Charles V to place more funds into. For instance, Cortes stated that “To our mind it is probable that this land contains as many riches as that from which Solomon is said to have obtained gold for the temple” . Cortes’s use of exaggeration here is to assure Charles V that his funding of Cortes’s voyage wasn’t a wasted
Hernan Cortes was contracted by the King of Spain, Charles V, to travel to the New World in search of riches and treasures. In his letter to Charles, Cortes’s argument seemed to take on an almost hyperbolical tone. He seems to have exaggerated his claims in order to make the New World sound like a more tantalizing investment for Charles V to place more funds into. For instance, Cortes stated that “To our mind it is probable that this land contains as many riches as that from which Solomon is said to have obtained gold for the temple” . Cortes’s use of exaggeration here is to assure Charles V that his funding of Cortes’s voyage wasn’t a wasted