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The lake was a natural lake formation within the Valley of Mexico. The Aztecs built the city of Tenochtitlan on an island in the lake. The Spaniards built Mexico City over Tenochtitlan.
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Montezuma 1 began his rule in 1440 and died in 1469. He was an emperor.
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Christopher Columbus was born in the Italian seaport of Genoa in 1451, to a family of wool weavers. As a child he helped his father and then as a young boy went to sea.The Vikings who were in American 400 years before Columbus, and Native Americans before that. Columbus was the first proper american to discover it. He discovered it for the spanish.
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He was born around 1466, and was to become a successful ruler and general even before he became emperor from 1502-1520. On the 8th of November 1519, Cortes and Montezuma met.He died in 1520 in a battle with the Spanish, though the no one knows the cause of his death.
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A conquistador is a person who rides a horse and has a gun.
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The New World was ravaged by smallpox for several centuries after the Spanish conquest. Jenner's discovery of the smallpox vaccine made possible the prevention and control of smallpox epidemics. In response to a large outbreak of smallpox in the Spanish colonies, King Charles IV appointed Francisco Xavier de Balmis to lead an expedition that would introduce Jenner's vaccine to these colonies.