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The Aztec people, in search of a new location, left their homeland of Aztlán, the ancestral home of the people. The Aztec people moved many times until they found a new location to place their civilization.
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The location was picked by the Aztec priests because it is where they saw the foretold sign of an eagle holding a snake while standing on a cactus.
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The Aztec Empire is formed with a triple alliance between the Aztecs, the Texcocans, and the people of Tlacopan.
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The Spanish conquistadors, including Hernan Cortés, arrive in Tenochtitlan. At first, the Aztec treat him as an honored guest, but he then takes king Montezuma II as a prisoner. Cortéz is driven away from the city, but Montezuma II is killed.
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Hernan Cortés and the Spanish finally defeat the Aztec empire.
