Show cortez got sulphur from in 1519 dallas texas mexico whose expropriation of foreign oil properties has centered interest in its mineral resources was itself a victim of expropriation expropriate ion more than years ago during its conquest by hernando cortez and his hardy band of spaniards in 1519 it was described to the chemical society recently cortez sent his men into the crater of famed mount and obtained sulphur with which he was able to make gunpowder that helped him to conquer the country donald B mason chemical engineer of the freeport sulphur company told of this episode from history in his review of the worlds sulphur industry for the chemists cortees exploit was the first production of sulphur in the western hemisphere |