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The Lost Treasure of Montezuma
In some spot in the United States or Mexico over ten
million dollars' worth of gold and jewels are buried.
The treasure has been hidden for over four hundred
fifty years.
Here's how it happened.
The treasure belonged to the Aztecs' of Mexico..
Montezuma was their king..
In 1520, Montezuma was warned that spanish soldiers
were heading toward his capital city(Now called
Mexico City).
Montezuma had been friendly to the spaniards when they first came.
However, the spaniards had started a war in order to
take the Aztecs' riches and Montezuma no longer
trusted them.
When Montezuma heard that spanish soldiers were
coming back, he ordered all the royal buildings stripped of gold
and jewels.
Then he gave the treasure to several Aztecs' soldiers
with orders to bury it in the north until spanidars
had gone.
Not longer after that, the spaniards captured the capital city and took Montezuma prisoner.
Words
Aztec
A member of Mexican Indian race who established a great empire, overthrown by the Spanish in the early 16 century.
overthrow
to remove sb/sth from a position of power using force
spaniard
a native or inhabitant of Spain
strip sb of sth
to take away property or honours from sb
: He was stripped of all his possessions.