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In the book it tells that almost of thirty years of the exploration, the discoveries of Columbus seemed illustory. They tell that in 1519 the promise came true by Hernan Cortes’s march into Mexico. Almost in the year of 1545, the spanish conquest expanded from the north of Mexico to the souther part of Chile, and that caused the New World to make richier and filled the Spanish treasure chest. Cortes did not had a good communication between the Native Americans and him. He could not speak any Native Americans language. But he had the fortune to arrive first in the Yucatan, where they were received from a chief from the tabasco people who know several native language, her name was Malinali. In the year of 1492 Columbus had landed on land and

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