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Smallpox killed off 90 percent of the population of Aztecs. Also he had better weapons and was more skilled in the art of war. But there are other mysteries surrounding this that historians still have yet to discover. Cortes was aided by the Native tribes the Aztecs had conquered.

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His primary advantage came in his taking Moctezuma hostage and working through him against the Aztecs.

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