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was forged between the cities of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopan. This cements the power of the Aztec Empire.
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Christopher Colombus arrives in the Americas landing in the Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola in the caribbean.
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in in Pope Alexander VI grants all lands to the west of a line in the Atlantic Ocean to Spain, and all the lands to the east of the line to Portugal.
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Moctezuma becomes the Aztec ruler
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amrica is first named by the cartographer Martin Waldseemuller, in honour of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci
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Hernandez de Cordoba begins to explore the Yucatan Peninsula and Mexico's east coast
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Hernán Cortéz arrives in the Aztec empite and enters the capital city, Tenochtitlan.
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Aztecs in Tenochtitlan are massacred 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 year killing thousands.
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The Aztecs are defeated and Tenochtitlan is destroyed after a three-monthsiege by the Spanish and their allies.