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The Aztecs were looking for a place to build a city, and they saw an eagle on a cactus eating a snake, so they decided it was a sign from the gods and they built their city where the cactus was.
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The Aztec Empire was founded when the Aztecs made an alliance with the Texacoco and the Tacubans.
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Montezuma became the king of the Aztecs when Itzcoatl was deemed unfit to continue.
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Francisco Cordoba landed in the Yucatan Peninsula with about 100 men and discovered the Aztecs.
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The Spanish conquistador Hernán Corés lands in Tabasco and founds the city of Veracruz, where he trained his army of 400 men, to storm the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
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Cortés, with the help of the natives, finally conquered Tenochtitlan. The main factors in the fall of the Aztecs were diseases, like smallpox and the flu, to which the natives had no resistance to. The conquistadors and natives who opposed the Aztecs killed many people as well. In total 240,000 people had been killed in the fighting for Tenochtitlan. Tenochtitlan was raised shortly after it's capture, and Mexico was constructed on top of it.
