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  • 1522 BCE

    What did Cortes do after the taking over the capital of Aztec.

    What did Cortes do after the taking over the capital of Aztec.
    Cortés then decided to rebuild the city and adopt the secondary Nahuatl name of the city: Mexico. Then the works for destroying of the old temples and palaces and build a new spanish city started in 1522.
  • 1521 BCE

    Cortes invade the city of Tenochtitlan.

    Cortes invade the city of Tenochtitlan.
    On May 1521 Cortés and his coalition army reached the outskirts of the Aztec capital and laid siege to the city. His force numbered more than 800 conquistadores and tens of thousands of indigenous warriors.
  • 1521 BCE

    Aztec civilization fall to Cortes.

    Aztec civilization fall to Cortes.
    The Spanish campaign against the Aztec Empire had its final victory on 13 August 1521, when a coalition army of Spanish forces and native Tlaxcalan warriors led by Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured the emperor Cuauhtémoc and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire.
  • 1519 BCE

    Cortes meet the Aztec

    Cortes meet the Aztec
    On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan.