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Show Montezuma Sent Out War Correspondents When Cortez and his Spaniards landed in Mexico the king, Montezuma, Monte-zuma, sent special correspondents to bring back news of the invaders. invad-ers. These men were artists, for the Aztecs had no written language. lan-guage. They brought back pictures of the white men, their ships, and the terrible beasts they rode. Horses were unknown to the Aztecs, and the sensation caused by these pictures pic-tures was tremendous. These Aztec artists may truly be called the first war correspondents. In older times the leader of an invading army was usually his own "special." We find many inscriptions in-scriptions in Egyptian ruins beginning: be-ginning: "In the year of my reign so-and-so, I, the King, the Great King, set out with my armies " And there follows a description of the campaign. The Moslems had scribes with their armies, who kept a record of the battles. |