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Is forged between the cities of Tenochtitlan. This cements the power of the Aztec Empire.
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Landing in the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola in the Caribbean.
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In it, Pope Alexader Vl grants all lands to the west of a line in the Atlantic Ocean to Spain and all lands to the east of the line to Portugal.
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By the cartographer Martin Waldseemuller in honor of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
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This begins to explore the Yucatan Peninsula and Mexico's east coast.
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He arrives in the Aztec empire and enters the capital city, Tenochtitlan.
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By the Spanish and Moctezuma dies.
The Spanish are driven out of the city a few months later.
A smallpox epidemic sweeps through the region in the same years killing thousands. -
After a three-month siege by the Spanish and their allies.