Conquest Quotes

“Yet to read into the past the morality of our time (or the lack of it) may not make the historian’s task any easier.”
― Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Cortés, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

“The experience of the Mayas is one more reminder that any interpretation of human evolution based on the idea of unilineal progress forwards (or upwards) is an illusion. Peoples decline as well as rise.”
― Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Cortés, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

“The philosophy of the discoveries, the emigration, and the colonisation was Christianity.”
― Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Cortés, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

“Juan de Ayora”
― Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Cortés, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

“The first concern derived from the fact that the Mexica had”
― Hugh Thomas, Conquest: Cortés, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico