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Aztec Timelines
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Aztec Timline
From 1250-1550
1521
1519
1440
1550
1325
1250's
Settle in Lake Texcoco
The Aztecs, who were Native American People and who dominated dominated Northern Mexico, settled in at near a placed called Lake Texcoco in 1250.
1250
1325
City of Tenochtitlan
In 1325 The city of Tenoctitlan was founded by the Aztecs on an island in Lake Texcoco (Northern Mexico), this is where the Aztecs spend most of their days.
1350
Empire starts
After 25 years of living In the City of Tenochtitlan, they started to build the causeways and cannals, they also started to explore the design of the floating gardens, all in 1350.
1350
1440
Montezuma I
Montezuma I ruled the Aztecs from 1440 to 1469, he is best known for his expansion of the empire and for his building projects, and the temple to the god Huitzilopochtli.
Montezuma the first then dies amd is succeeded by Ahuzotu in 1469.
1502
Montezuma II
Montezuma II becomes the ruler of the Aztecs. The Aztec Empire is at its fulest and is more powerful than ever.
Montezuma II was the ninth Aztec emperor of Mexico, famous for his dramatic confrontation with the Spanish conquistador.
1502
1519
Conquestadors
In 1519 the Spanish Conquestadors arrive at Tenchtitlan. They conqured and disposed of the Aztecs ruler, Montezuma II.
1520-1
Small-pox outbreak
Over these two years, an outbreak of small-pox, was intriduced by the Europeans, and it sweeps through the population f Tenochtitlan, killing up to half the popuation.
1520-1
1521
Diseases
An outbreak of smallpox was then
introduced by the
Europeans, and it sweeps
through the population
of Tenochtitlan, killing up
to half of the City's populan.
1522
Rebuilding Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan is rebuilt
and named Mexico City.
It is then declared the capital of
the Spanish colony in
the Americas. It now goes by ‘New Spain’.
1522
1550's
Summery
By the 1550s The city of TEnochtitlan was no longer, it had been beated by Herman Cortes, and his allies. He took the city down, town by town. He then became the Emperor.