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Mayan people migrate southward into Mesoamerica.
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They were later forced to leave.
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It is the capital of the new Aztec empire.
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It is established after the formation of the Triple Alliance with Texcoco and Tlacopan.
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The following year a new temple at Tenochtitlán was built that was dedicated to the gods. After it was built, a ceremony where up to 20,000 prisoners of war were sacrificed at the altar.
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The Aztec Empire is at its peak.
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He is accompanied by 600 soldiers.
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Montezuma receives Cortés with great honor. Cortés, however, soon decides to take Montezuma captive
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Cortés leaves to combat a rival Spanish force on the coast, and when he gets back, Cortés finds the Spanish garrison in Tenochtitlán besieged by the Aztecs.
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Their emperor is captured, and the Aztec Empire falls.