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This document is a webquest for a 10th grade Spanish class about the Spanish conquest of the New World. It provides background information on Hernan Cortés' voyage across the Atlantic in 1551 under orders from the King of Spain to obtain wealth, claim land, and convert indigenous people to Catholicism. The introduction notes that indigenous peoples in Mexico believed the god Quetzcoatl would return as a butterfly, and they saw Cortés and his men in armor as fulfilling this prophecy when they first encountered each other.