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He was at Cuba when he got hired to explore a "main land"
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The Spanish are attacked by the Tlaxcalans a few days after landing
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Tlaxcalans make an alliance with the Spanish and tell them about the Aztecs
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The Spanish 3 month trip finally gets to the heart of the Aztec lands
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Cortes takes Moctezuma hostage in his own great city
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while Cortes is out fighting his old foe his second in command kills thousands at a festival.
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Cotes comes back to see that the city is in anarchy, he and his solder hide in their palace trying to calm down the Aztecs
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Moctezuma is stoned by his own outraged people
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Cortes and his men run for the bridge with as much gold as they can carry, an Aztec amush kills over 600 spanish
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The Aztecs are dying of smallpox brought by the spanish.
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The Spanish and their allys regroup and attack the now weakend Aztecs.
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after years the Aztec's have finaly surrender.
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Cortes is made Govenor and Captain-General of New Spain and recives 1/12 of all the Aztec gold (thats a lot!)