Knowing he would not follow orders, so he ordered another conquistor, Luis de Medina, to attempt to conquer Mexico instead. However, Cortes brother, Medina, killed him. On the dock the day Cortes left for Mexico, Velazquez commanded him to stop and stay in Cuba, but he said time was short, and sailed away very quickly...
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Then he left and landed at the tip of the Yucatan peninsula, at a town called Potonchanon. He shortly learned that Montezuma ruled these lands, as the Aztec empire. At first, the Aztecs had very little resistance to the Spaniards, in fact, Montezuma gave him gifts as they thought he may be a god-king, named Quetzalcoatl...
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Hernan Cortes One night was named "Noche Trista" meaning sad night in Spanish, because Cortes came back and helped kill over 10,000 Aztecs and in the act, thousands of Spaniards died...	3 / 680
Cortes 2 Even with the lavish treatment the Spanish were receiving they still captured Montezuma II. Meanwhile, Velaquez, in Cuba dispatches Narvaez and to get Cortes for treason...	2 / 421
Hernando Cortez The Spaniards continued to kill more Aztec leaders, and spread small pox which caused the killings of many Aztecs. By 1521, Tenochtitlan was desolated, and that's when Cortes took the capture of their final ruler Cuauhtemoc...	2 / 422
Hernan Cortes Cortes overcame the native tribe Tlascalans. This tribe quickly became an alliance to the Spanish because they were enemies to the Aztecs. As the conquest went on this tribe continued to be the most important alliance of the Spaniards...	4 / 962