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THIS IS TH HARDEST AND LONGEST QUSTION ON prt 1
Like other conquistadors, was eager to win riches and glory. He had heard rumors of a fabulously American empire in Mexico. With only about soldiers and 16 , Cortés set sail for Mexico in in search of gold.
Moctezuma (mok tuh zoo muh), the emperor who ruled over much of Mexico, heard disturbing reports of a large floating on the sea. It was filled with men with long, thick beards. Aztec sacred writings that a powerful white-skinned would come from the east to the Aztec.
The strangers were Tenochtitlán (tay nawch teet LAHN), the Aztec , which is now Mexico City. Moctezuma decided to welcome them as his .
Cortés took of Moctezuma’s invitation. Shrewdly, Cortés had already begun to the support of other who resented Aztec rule.
One of his trusted was an Indian woman the Spanish called . She gave Cortés valuable about the Aztec and acted as a translator and .
On 8, 1519, CortĂ©s marched into Tenochtitlán. The city was much than any city at that time. Thousands upon thousands of Aztecs turned out to see the astonishing newcomers riding horses. DĂaz recalled:
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“Who could count the multitude of men, women and children which had come out on the roofs, in their boats on the canals, or in the streets, to see us?”
—Bernal DĂaz del Castillo, True History of the Conquest of New Spain
At first, Cortés was to Moctezuma. Soon, however, he made the emperor a in his own city. Tensions mounted in Tenochtitlán over the next half .
Finally, the Aztec drove out the Spanish. Their victory, however, was . Aided by people whom the Aztec had conquered, Cortés recaptured the city. In the end, the Spanish Tenochtitlán, and Moctezuma was . The Aztec empire had .
Another , Francisco Pizarro (pee sahr oh), set his sights on the Incan empire. Pizarro sailed down the coast of South America with fewer than Spanish soldiers. In , he captured the Incan emperor Atahualpa (ah tuh WAHL puh) and later him. Without the leadership of Atahualpa, Incan resistance . By 1535, Pizarro much of the Incan empire.
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