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A triple alliance is forged between the cities of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan.
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Christopher Columbus arrived to America, landing in de Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola in the Caribbean.
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The Treaty of Tordesillas is signed.In the Pope Alexander VI grants all the lands to the west of a line in the Atlantic Ocean to Spain, and all the lands to the east of a line to Portugal.
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Montezuma becomes the Aztec ruler.
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'America' is the first named by the cartographer Martin Waldeemuller, in honor of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
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Hernandez de Cordoba begin to explore the Yucatan Peninsula and Mexico's east coast.
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Hernán Cortés arrives in the Aztec empire and enters the capital city, Tenochtitlan.
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Aztecs in Tenochtitlan are massacred by the Spanish and Montezuma 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-month siege by Spanish and their allies.