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Cortez gets Malinche as a gift.
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500 Spanish conquistadors start expedition.
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Tlaxcalans lose fight with Spanish and join as allies
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Cortez meets Montezuma for the first time.
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Cortez makes Montezuma his prisoner. The spanish stay in Tenochtitlan for months.
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Cortez goes to fight soldiers sent to arrest him and instead wins their loyalty and trust.
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Cortez leaves Alvarado.
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Cortez returns and all the confusion forces Montezuma to speak to his people, but Montezuma gets killed and the Aztec people get aggressive.
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Cortez and Spanish try to escape in the middle of the night (Noch Triste)
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After escaping Cortez and his survivors retret for a few months so they can recover from their wounds and so they can rebuild weapons and work up their strength and rebuild boats.
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Alvarado mistakes a religious ceremony for a plot against them and orders a slaughter for everyone that participated. The Aztecs were angry and very confused as to what was going on.
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Thousands of Aztecs died from the disease smallpox.
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Spanish attack for the second time on the weakened Aztecs.
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Cortez prevents food and water from entering the Aztec city for three months.
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The very few remaining Aztecs surrender.
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Cortez becomes Governor of New Spain.
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The Spanish destroy Tenochtitlan.
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Mexico City is built on the ruins of the Aztecs in 1522.
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