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In 300 BC people were making El Mirador the largest cities with 250,000 people lived in that city.
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The Maya’s History starts about in the 200 BC, and goes to 1697.
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We only know that they settled near Lake Texcoco around 1250.
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only know that they settled near lake texcoco
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And they founded Tenochtitlan around 1325.
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found techotitlan
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Depending upon the occasion, some human sacrifices could be of a very large scale. For example, at a religious celebration in 1487, the Aztecs were said to have offered the lives of 84,400 people (mainly criminals and POWs) over a period of four days.
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Aztecs were said to offered the lives of 84,400 people over a period of four days.
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Maya were still rich citizens when spanish met them.
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In 1519, Herman (or Hernan) Cortes and his fellow Spaniards landed on the Gulf Coast.
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The Spanish people then moved on the Maya cities.
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the Aztec Empire, in 1521, then moved on the Maya cities
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Together, they sacked the capital city of Tenochtitlan on August 13, 1531, and brought the mighty Aztec Empire to its knees.
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Spanish captured the last independent Maya city.