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This was important because it showed Cortes determination to explore Mexico.
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They did not want to be under Spanish rule, so they attacked the Spanish but Cortes held them off with guns and steel armour.
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After they attacked the Spanish, they then decided it was in their best interests to make an alliance with the Spanish. They agreed to join forces with Cortes to defeat the Aztec.
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Cortes sent messages saying he was coming in peace and wished to meet the emperor to extend his greetings. When moctezuma finally greeted cortes in Tenochtitlan, he addressed cortes as if he were a god, unsure whether or not cortes was quetzalcoatl.
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Cortes replaced the idolas in the palace where he was staying with statues of Roman Catholic saints. Moctezumas advisors were disgusted that he had let the Spanish into the city and that he was allowing them to set of statues of the spanish religion.
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Alvarado and his men surrounded the courtyard and massacred the unarmed worshippers. The Aztec were outraged, nobles and priests were killed.
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The Spanish gathered their arms and fought so ferociously that the Spanish had to retreat to Cortes's palace away from the center of the city. Any chance of a peaceful agreement between the Spanish and the Aztec was gone.
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He died from stones being hurled at him. Cuitlahuac (kwee-tlah-WATCH) was elected the new huey tlatoani.
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They tried to escape in the middle ogf the night, but the Aztec discovered them crossing the causeways and attacked them. 700 spanish and 2000 to 3000 tlaxcalans were killed.
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Lots of the Aztecs die from the epidemic disease
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this was the final battle. And almost half of the aztec population was dead from smallpox already
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they surrended and huey tlatoani was taken as prisoner and hanged.
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he destroyed their pyrimads, temples, homes and palaces.
