Hernan
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46:10This first episode introduces us to the adventures and misadventures of Hernan, the glory of the resplendent Tenochtitlan and the Mexica society at its peak, the battles and massacres, the pride and ambition, from the point of view of a girl, whose genius has been overlooked and taken until now as treason to a whole civili...
44:46Cristobal de Olid is faithful to the governor of Cuba, and does not welcome Hernan efforts to reach Tenochtitlan in the name of the king of Spain. But the charisma of Hernan and his dreams of conquest are seducing his men. Could the rightful, faithful and honourable Cristobal de Olid be the only one to resist the overwhelm...
45:04Not all the men from the New World believe that Hernan and his soldiers are gods. Some fierce warriors demand their leaders to face this new danger before it is too late. Others take the newcomers as the opportunity to end the subjugation of the Mexica empire. Xicotencatl stands out as the most hostile leader towards Herna...
44:57What shadow cast the steps of Hernan towards Tenochtitlan, a city that made the greatest European capitals of the time pale in comparison? How much destruction entailed the creation of a new world? Only someone could tell the story – Bernal.
44:29The reaction of Moctezuma to the arrival of Hernan and his few soldiers has always been a mystery. Despite the pleadings of his warriors to attack Hernan, terrible signs for the Mexica burden the religious Moctezuma. Are they gods? Are the prophecies being fulfilled? What to do, when misfortune comes, the way it has been w...
45:04Hernan has to face the expedition sent by the governor of Cuba as a punishment for his audacity. Hernan has to fight far away and leaves his bravest man in command, in spite of Marina's opinion. The Spaniards tremble in fear before the countless skulls and cascades of spilled blood from the sacrificial stone, along the pyr...
45:13Trapped in a hostile Tenochtitlan after Moctezuma’s death, Hernan entrusts his dearest friend with a mission so daring that is almost suicidal: to escape, not just alive, but with all the gold of the Mexica empire, among hundreds of thousands of furious city dwellers, who feel betrayed by their dead leader, and especially,...
45:20Who was Hernan Cortes? A conqueror, avid of glory and riches? A man so captivated by the beauty of the newfound lands and the character of the new peoples that he could not conceive another future for him and his men than to stay? Even Hernan’s soldiers did not understand, when he ordered to sink their ships, the size of t...