"¡Es mio!" What Spanish conquistador and explorer claimed Mexico for Spain?
Answer Hernán Cortés
"We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure." The 15th-century Spanish conquistador, Hernán Cortés, followed his sickness of the heart all the way over to Mexico and claimed it for Spain. The New World was his.
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