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the Cortes determination to explore Mexico
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that time the Tlazcalans attacked the spanish, but the Cortes held them off with guns and steel armour.
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The Tlaxcalans decided it was in their best interests to make an alliance with the spanish. They agreed to join forces with Cortes to defeat Aztec.
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When Moctezuma finally greeted Cortes in Tenochtitlan, he addressed Cortes as if he were a god, unsure whether or not Cortes was Quetzzalcoatl.
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The Cortes think that the Mactezuma was weak and had let down his people and diminished their reputation.
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The Aztec attacked the spanish from all sides, even from canoes in the water. Many spanish was carrying stolen gold and could not move quickly because of the added weight.
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there are 2 different acocunts of Moctezuma's death.
1,) Moctezuma died from the stones hurled at him.
2.) The Cortes ordered Moctezuma killed because he was no longer of use to him -
The Aztec began dying from smallpox that had been brought by the spanish to the new world
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The Aztec huey tlatoani, Cuauhtemoc,wastaken prisoner and hanged. The great Aztec Empire was no more.
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less than 3years after Cortes arrived on its shores. Cortes became governor and captain general new New Spain
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