Crystal Clock

Friday 21 November 2014

Today I have to start editing my project hopefully by the end of todays lesson I hope to
do a rough edit so that by next Thursday I can add all the final elements to it like a logo and the credits. :-)

Tuesday 8 March 2011

spice exploration

cortes was sent to find the spice islands but he didn't find them but he did find the islands which would become the americas. the people where called the totanac tribe and they had spices which were pepper nutmeg and more they also had vanilla and they you'sd it for perfume, medicine and a scent for temples. it is now called panampla which is now the birthplace of vanilla.

Tuesday 1 March 2011

last years and legacy

Having spent a great deal of his own money to finance expeditions, he was now heavily in debt. In February 1544 he made a claim on the royal treasury, but was given a royal runaround for the next three years. Disgusted, he decided to return to Mexico in 1547. When he reached Seville, he was stricken with dysentery. He died in Castilleja de la Cuesta, Seville province, on December 2, 1547, from a case of pleurisy at the age of 62.

Like Columbus, he died a wealthy but embittered man. He left his many mestizo and white children well cared for in his will, along with every one of their mothers. He requested in his will that his remains eventually be buried in Mexico. Before he died he had the Pope remove the "natural" status of three of his children (legitimizing them in the eyes of the church), including Martin, the son he had with Doña Marina (also known as La Malinche), said to be his favourite.[citation needed]

After his death his body has been moved more than eight times for several reasons. On December 4, 1547 he was buried in the mausoleum of the Duke of Medina in the church of San Isidoro del Campo, Sevilla. Three years later (1550) due to the space being required by the duke, his body was moved to the altar of Santa Catarina in the same church. In his testament, Cortés asked for his body to be buried in the monastery he had ordered to be built in Coyoacan in México, ten years after his death, but the monastery was never built. So in 1566, his body was sent to New Spain and buried in the church of "San Francisco de Texcoco", where his mother and one of his sisters were buried.

In 1629, Don Pedro Cortés fourth "Marquez del Valle, his last male descendant, died, so the viceroy decided to move the bones of Cortés along with those of his descendant to the Franciscan church in México. This was delayed for nine years, while his body stayed in the main room of the palace of the viceroy. Eventually it was moved the Sagrario of Franciscan church, where it stayed for 87 years. In 1716, it was moved to another place in the same church. In 1794, his bones were moved to the "Hospital de Jesus" (founded by Cortés), where a statue by Tolsa and a mausoleum were made. There was a public ceremony and all the churches in the city rang their bells.

In 1823, after the independence of México, it seemed imminent that his body would be desecrated, so the mausoleum was removed, the statue and the coat of arms were sent to Palermo, Sicily, to be protected by the Duke of Terranova. The bones were hidden, and everyone thought that they had been sent out of México. In 1836, his bones were moved to another place in the same building. It was not until 1947 that they were rediscovered thanks to the discovery of a secret document by Lucas Alaman. His body put in charge of the "Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia" INAH; it was authenticated and then restored to the same place, this time with a bronze inscription and his coat of arms.[18] In 1981, when a copy of the bust by Tolsa was put in the church, there was a failed attempt to destroy his bones.

Hernán Cortés's titles

1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca. A marquis ia a type of lord or some sort of noblemen. cortes was also freinds with emperor charles the fourth of spain.

Tuesday 8 February 2011

fact file of cortes

full nane: Hernan cortes de monroy y pizarro

Farther:Martin cortes de monroy

mother:maria cortez

Home town:Medellin

D.O.B:1485

year of death:2nd december 1547

ocupation:Explorer

age of death:61 or 62

Resting place: Hospital de Jesús Nazareno, Mexico City

Tuesday 1 February 2011

Departure for the new world

Cortés did not arrive in the "New World" until he finally reached hispaniola in a ship commanded by Alonso Quintero, who tried to deceive his superiors and reach the New World before them in order to secure personal advantages. Quintero's mutinous conduct may have served as a model for Cortés in his subsequent career. The history of the conquistadores is rife with accounts of rivalry, jockeying for positions, mutiny and betrayal.

Upon his arrival in 1504 in Santo Domingo, the capital of Hispaniola, the 18 year old Cortés registered as a citizen, which entitled him to a building plot and land to farm. Soon afterwards, Nicolás de Ovando, still the governor, gave him a repartimiento of Indians and made him a notary of the town of Azua de Compostela. His next five years seemed to help establish him in the colony; in 1506, Cortés took part in the conquest of Hispaniola and Cuba, receiving a large estate of land and Indian slaves for his efforts from the leader of the expedition.