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Gortyn
Ancient city, S central Crete, Greece. Although unimportant in Minoan times, it later displaced Phaestus as the dominant city. It shared or disputed control of Crete with Knossos until the Roman annexation in the 1st cent. BC, when it became the administrative capital of the Roman province of Crete and Cyrenaica. Among the city's ruins, the great civic law code of Gortyn, discovered in the 19th cent., is the most extensive account of Greek law before the Hellenistic Age.
aorta
Artery that carries blood from the heart to all the organs and structures of the body. Where the left ventricle opens into the aorta, a valve prevents backflow of blood into the heart. The aorta ascends from the heart, arches over it to the left, then descends into the trunk. Arteries branch off along its length until it divides at hip level into arteries that go to the legs.
Cortes
Representative assembly of the medieval Iberian kingdoms. The Cortes developed in the European Middle Ages when elected representatives of the free municipalities acquired the right to take part in the affairs of the Curia Regis ("king's court"). They were admitted because the crown was short of funds and lacked the right to raise taxes without the consent of the municipalities. Cortes were established in Leó n and Castile by the early 13th cent. and soon appeared in Catalonia (1218), Aragon (1274), Valencia (1283), and Navarre (1300). Today the term refers to the national legislatures of Spain and Portugal.
cortex
In plants, the tissue of unspecialized cells lying between the epidermis (surface cells) and the vascular, or conducting, tissues (see phloem and xylem) of stems and roots. Cortical cells may contain stored food or other substances, such as resins, latex, essential oils, and tannins. Cortical cells in herbaceous stems, young woody stems, and stems of succulents contain chloroplasts and can therefore make food by photosynthesis. Food, usually in the form of starch, in edible roots, bulbs, and tubers is stored mostly in the cortex.
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Spanish conquistador who won Mexico for Spain. Born into an old family, he left Spain for the New World at 19, joining Diego Velá zquez de Cué llar (1465-1524) in the conquest of Cuba (1511). In 1519, with 508 men and 16 horses, he burned his ships on Mexico's SE coast, thus committing himself to conquest. After accumulating thousands of Indian allies who resented Aztec domination, he forged ahead to Tenochtitlá n, the Aztec capital (today Mexico City). The emperor Montezuma II, believing Corté s to be the god Quetzalcó atl, welcomed him, but was taken prisoner. Hearing that a Spanish force from Cuba was coming to relieve him of command, Corté s left Tenochtitlá n under the command of a captain and set out to defeat his Spanish opponents. Returning with the opposition forces now under his command, he discovered that the city had revolted; he led his ...
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