aztecs

tenchilan

1325

Tenochtitlán was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands of people who lived there

conquistador formula

1490

A conquistador was the name given to the Fifteenth-to-Seventeenth century Spanish and Portugese soldiers who conquered much of the world, most famously the Central and Southern Americas

Montezuma becomes a leader

1502

after the fall of there last leader Montezuma showed that he would be fit or a kingdom with his military strength and his background and his beliefs in there gods.

arrival of Cortes

1519

landed on the coast of Mexico. Learning of the powerful Aztec empire and its capital city of Tenochtitlán, Cortés traveled over one hundred miles inland to find the city and claim the Empire for Spain.

fall of empire

1519

Cortes invaded Tenochtitlan easily defeating the Aztecs and there bad weapons.taking over them and making some of the people slaves and making the land theirs

stoning of Montezuma

1519

the Spanish took over the empire the Aztecs were not happy so the Spanish took there leader and told him to make a speech and he said that they came in peace the Aztecs did not like that and stoned him

reconquista

1520

Spanish conquerors, their indigenous allies, and the defeated Aztecs. It was not solely a contest between a small contingent of Spaniards defeating the Aztec Empire, but rather the creation of a coalition of Spanish invaders with tributaries to the Aztecs, and most especially the Aztecs' indigenous enemies and rivals. They combined forces to defeat the Mexica of Tenochtitlan over a two-year period