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- Pedro de Alvarado was sent to Tenochtitlan by Spain to arrest Cortes.
- Let's go capture Cortes
- The Spanish army plotted and attack on the Aztecs by surrounding the Aztec temple and infiltrating the temple by only entrance. Many Aztecs died in this attack
- They'll never see us coming
- Cortes, Moctezuma, the escaped Aztecs and the Tlaxcalans come back to Tenochtitlan where they met Alvarado.
- You have defeated us, Tenochtitlan is yours again
- The Aztec citizens were not happy with Moctezuma allying with Cortes, so they decided to stone and throw darts at him. after Moctezuma's death the Aztecs had found another leader named Cuitlahuac.
- Moctezuma you have betrayed us all, allying with Cortes, and the Tlaxcalans. You can not live with us and therefore should punished
- After the fall of Tenochtitlan, Cortes and his army had claimed the land for the King and Queen of Spain.cortes this is now New Spain holding up a spanish flag
- After the Spanish had claimed the land of Tenochtitlan for themselves, some of the conquistadors were given land by the king and queen of Spain. They used this land for farming and had some of the Aztec slaves do the farming for them.
- Queen Isabella had noticed that the Aztecs slaves that were working on the conquistadors land had been treated very poorly. After her passing King Ferdinand re-enforced Queen Isabella's wishes and passed a law stating that the Spanish conquistadors had to treat the aztec slaves with more respect
- On the ruins of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan the conquistadors forced the Aztec slaves to build Catholic churches and other Christian religious monuments.
- The news had spread to New Spain in regards to King Ferdinand's new law, but the Spanish conquistadors didn't listen and kept over working and mistreating the slaves.
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