Spanish Conquest of Americas - Taillah Henwood

Aztecs settle near Lake Texcoco.

Jan 1, 1250

City of Techtitlan is founded by the Aztecs on an island in Lake Texcoco.

Jan 1, 1325

It was one of the largest cities in the world at the time of the Spanish conquest.Tenochtitlan was at first constructed like other city-state capitals with an organized central area and an unorganized region outside the center precincts. When the Mexicas came to power and Tenochtitlan's population began to grow explosively there was a need to organize.

Causeways and canals are built in Tenochtitlan.

Jan 1, 1350

Aztecs expand their empire by defeating the Tepanecs.

Jan 1, 1400

Montezuma I begins his rule.

Jan 1, 1440

He became Emperor after his uncles death.

Columbus "discovers" Americas.

Jan 1, 1492

Christopher Columbus was Spanish. The king and queen of Spain.

Aztec Empire is at its most powerful as Montezuma II begins his rule.

Jan 1, 1502

Columbus dies.

Jan 1, 1506

City and the Spanish conquistadors arrive at Tenochtitlan

Jan 1, 1519

Conquistadors - one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.

Spanish bring small pox to the " New World" with them, causing an outbreak of the disease.

Jan 1, 1520

The disease had killed about a million people.

Cortes claims Tenochtitlan for Spain.

Jan 1, 1521

Tenochtitlan is rebuilt as the capital of "New Spain", The Spanish colony in the Americas.

Jan 1, 1522