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This was important because it showed Cortes' determination to explore Mexico
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The Tlaxcalans attacked the Spanish so that they did not have to be ruled by the spanish.
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The Tlaxcalans made alliance with the spanish because they saw the heavy weaponry and armour they had.
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Cortes lied to the capital and said they came in peace and the aztecs thought that he was a god and the aztec leader treated him like a god.
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Cortes waited to capture the king and one week after he spanish arrested the king.
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when the aztec started there worship the spanish kill thousands of
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The aztec are angry at the killing of there people so they regrouped and ran the spanish out of tinoctilan.
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the aztec stop the spanish from escaping and hunt them down like animals.
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when the spanish were being killed by aztec they asked the king
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this disease killed almost the whole aztec empire.
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the last group of aztec surrender to cortes and were killed and hanged.
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now seeing the spanish weak they stoped trade and fresh water from getting to the city and they destroyed the city and its people from disease,food shrtages and bad water supply.
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Less than 3 years after courtes destroyed the aztec empire and became the leader of new spain.
