Cortes and Battle of Zama

Hernán Cortés

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, was a Spanish conqueror  who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.

 Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Battle of Zama

The Battle of Zama, fought around October 19, 202 BC, marked the final and decisive end of the Second Punic War. A

 Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus defeated a Carthaginian force led by the legendary commander Hannibal. Soon after this defeat on their home ground, the Carthaginian senate sued for peace, which was given to them by the Roman Republic on rather humiliating terms, ending the 17-year war.