As is well known, the vast world territories reached by the Spanish Crown during the reign of the Habsburgs, and their maintenance under the Bourbons, are often summed up with the expression "the empire on which the sun never sets," alluding to the fact that they spanned all five continents. However
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An uncompromising study of the fictions, the failures, and the real man behind the myth of Magellan. With Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan, celebrated
The bizarre Cortes-as-Quetzalcoatl myth persists because it was actually a beneficial story both for the Spanish Conquistadors and the Aztec descendants.