Join the Arizona Historical Society and Dr. Andrés Reséndez for an installment of AHS Summer History Talks: Spanish Period in Arizona! This is a virtual program.

Cortés famously led campaigns that brought down the Aztec Empire in 1521. Far less known is his subsequent career as a silver baron and transpacific explorer. This presentation will focus on the connections between Spain’s mining activities in North America during the sixteenth century and the development of the Manila Galleon, as American silver sustained a durable transpacific relationship with silver-starved China.

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