In the early Sixteenth Century a force of hundreds overcame an empire of millions. This is the story of one of the most momentous events of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire – the meeting of Spanish leader Hernán Cortés, an obscure career soldier from the Castilian badlands, and Montezuma, the ruler of the Aztec Triple Alliance, a man revered as a god upon earth by his millions of subjects.
