The Conquistadors
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The Spanish Invasion of Tenochtiklan
There's a whole array of diseases that are not known in the Americas at all until Spaniards arrive. For example, the six months that the Spaniards spend in Tenochtiklan has the effect of introducing various diseases into that city. When nine months a year later, a Spanish indigenous force is then besieging that city. Those defenders are having to deal with waves of epidemic disease That's probably killing more of the defenders than the war itself is directly through violence. After months of fighting, Cortez is victorious. The conquistadors tear down the monumental structures that reflect the might of the Aztec Empire and use the stones to construct the first buildings of Mexico City.
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