Aztec comic strip
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- Spain wanted to colonize the aztecs because they wanted the material aid and mineral wealth from the colony, and felt obligated to spread Christianity to the natives.
- The Spanish introduced the Aztecs to domestic animals, sugar, grains, and European farming practices.
- Spanish conquistadors worked with local tribes to attack the aztec capital Tenochtitlán and a combination of superior weaponry and a devastating smallpox outbreak enabled the Spanish to conquer the city.
- Between 1519 and 1521 Hernán Cortés and a small band of men brought down the Aztec empire in Mexico
- The advantages that the Spanish had over the Aztecs were 16 horses, guns, armor, formed alliances, diseases, and steel.
- The Spanish had a negative rule that effected the aztecs. The surviving Aztecs were highly susceptible to European diseases previously unknown to their culture, such as smallpox and typhus.
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