When the conquistadors arrived at the aztec capitol, tenochtitlan, they couldn't believe their eyes.
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Images. The aztec outnumbered the spanish, but that didn't stop hernán cortés from seizing tenochtitlan although the aztec had the superior numbers, advanced spanish weaponry ultimately gave them the despite being made a marquis years later, the conqueror of mexico did not have a glorious end. Between 1519 and 1521, spanish conquistadors, led by hernán cortés, overthrew the aztec empire.
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He met moctezuma who thought. Hernán cortés was a spanish conquistador, or conqueror, best remembered for conquering the aztec empire in 1521 it is uncertain how montezuma died. The aztecs demanded regular tributes of their conquered subjects, and often ritual human sacrifice did not always sit well with the vassal tribes.
Cortés received a message that velazquez, the spanish governor of cuba, had.
How did the battles for the empire unfold? After all, the spanish had things that moctezuma had never seen before like horses and gigantic war dogs which they used to. Some scholars state that, disgusted with him, the aztecs stoned the king did allow him to return to mexico, albeit with much less authority. Archaeologists said traces of construction show the aztecs had to rebuild the town of zultepec just to.
