The Aztec Indians: Settling In Tenochtitlans

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The Aztec Indians were nomadic people ruling over 15 million people in South Mexico. They built palaces that were to the equivalent of Egyptian pyramids. Settling in Tenochtitlan in 1519 they developed serious political and religious organizations that formed their culture and helped them form a society that was incomparable to any others at that time. After being conquered by a Spanish conquistador, Hernan Cortes, their settlement crumbled to ruins in 1521 and remains the same since. (Aztecs.) When the Spanish came the Aztecs thought that they were gods and they were coming in peace, so they gifted them and welcomed them into Tenochtitlan. The Spanish then saw the vulnerability, and conquered. The Aztecs leader Montezuma was then captured

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