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Before the arrival of Spanish conquistadores in the 16th century, the Aztec Empire had almost no vulnerabilities. The Empire was at its peak when Cortes and his men arrived to Mexican shores.

If you mean what brought down the Aztec Empire, such weaknesses included three things: lack of enough technology - horses, gunpowder, iron armors - to repeal the Spanish advance; lack of resistance to smallpox, which decimated the Aztec population and helped Cortes gaining an upper hand against the Aztecs. Finally, the Quetzalcoatl myth, which helped Cortes to become close to Montezuma so he could prepare and implement a sneak attack on the Aztec emperor.

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