Cortez
Hernando Cortez
At 1519 they found the lost city of the aztecs
When Cortes arrived in Mexico, Moctezuma II was the leader. Later that year (1519) Moctezuma was killed and Cuitlahuac was elected as ruler.
They welcomed him because the Aztecs believed that he was qetzalcoatl, their main god. In a prophecy, Qetzalcoatl was to come back in the year reed, an the god was a fair skinned god. Any guesses on what year it was to the Aztecs when cortez got there? Year reed. They thought Cortez was their god.He came in 1519.
Cortez invaded the Aztecs in 1519.
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Hernando Cortez invented chocolate in the 1519's
Hernan Cortez came to the Aztec empire in 1519 with about 600 men. In 1520 he led the siege of tenochtitlan and took completely destroyed the city, a city was later rebuilt near tenochtitlan named mexico city, after the mexica people who were what you think of as the aztecs, mexico city became the capital of the state of new spain "mexico" and cortez sailed on, reaching the philippines where he died.
Hernando Cortez
Hernando Cortez first explored Mexico in 1519, conquering the Aztec civilization in 1521.
February 18, 1519