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Cortes hopes to find riches in the Aztec empier & fufull his dream of conquring land.
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The Talacalans attacked the Spanish but Cortes held them off with guns and steel armour.
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The Tlaxcalans decided that it would be best to form an alliance with the Spanish and defeat the Aztecs
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Cortes and Moctezuma meet. Cortes says he comes in peace. Moctezuma adresses Cortes as if he were a god.
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Aztecs had burned the place whre Cortes has arrived. Cortes blams Moctezuma and takes him hostage. Then the Aztecs abandon Moctezuma.
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While Atecs prepare for a religious festival the Spanish murder thousands of unarmed Aztec soilders.
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The Aztecs were outraged and had fought so ferociously once they gathered their weapons that the Spanish had to retreat to Cortes palace.
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Cortes urges Moctezuma to calm his people down but instead they stone Moctezuma to death.
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The Aztecs were not immune to the diseases the Europeans brought to Mexico. As a result the Aztecs died of smallpox.
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Half the population of the Aztes have died of smallpox. The Spanish attack them. The Aztecs had no one to defend them in this battle.
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The Aztec huey tlatoani cuauhtemoc was taken prisioner and hanged. The Aztec empier was no more.
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Cortes had burned/destroyed everything that remained of the Aztec civilization.