Check out how he describes Mexico as the Spanish found it in letters to Charles V, King of Spain.

“This city of Chunjltecal is situated in a plain, and has up to twenty thousand houses in the body of Description the city, and as many more in the outskirts. of Choiuia It is an independent state, and has its recognised boundaries, and they do not obey any chiefs, but govern themselves like the Tascaltecas. The people are better clothed in some ways than the Tascaltecas, because their honoured citizens all wear albornoces ^ above their other clothing, though they differ from those of Africa in having pockets, but in the making, and stuff and borders, they are very similar.”

“This city has very fertile fields, for they have much land, and the greater part is irrigated; and the city seen from the outside is more beautiful than the cities of Spain, because it is very level, and contains many towers, for I certify to Your Highness that I counted from a mosque four hundred and odd towers in the city…”

A mosque. In a city in North America in 1485? Sounds insane right? Cites more beautiful than the cities of Spain?

https://archive.org/details/lettersofcorts01cortuoft/page/220/mode/1up?q=Towers

By the way, Charles V was Black.

By the way, Charles V was a “Hapsburg” who famously inbred so much they had a jutting jaw which you can see in these depictions of him. But all depictions you will find of the Hapsburg’s through normal means will show portraits of WHITE people. This is the lengths they have gone to to erase Black figures from history.

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