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Aztecs set up a group of tribes near Lake Texcoco.
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City of Tenochtitlan is founded by the Aztecs on an island in Lake Tenochtitlan. It is said that the Aztecs bulit their city in the place where they found a eagle eating a snake while perched on a cactus. Tenochtitlan means 'city of the cactus'.
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The causeways and canals of Tenochtitlan are bulit.
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Aztecs expand their empire by defeating the Tepanecs.
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Montezuma I begins his rule.
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Montezuma I dies and is succeeded by Ahuizotu. His cause of death is unknown.
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Columbus 'discvoers' the Americas.
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Montezuma II becomes the ruler of the Aztecs. The Aztec Empire is at its most powerful.
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Columbus dies.
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Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors arrive at Tenochtitlan.
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An outbreak of Small Pox introduced by Europeans, sweeps through the population of Tenochtitlan, killing up to half the population.
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Cortes claims the city of Tenochtitlan in the name of Spain.
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Tenochtitlan is rebuilt and named Mexico City. Declared the capital of the Spanish colony in the Americas - "New Spain".
