Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
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The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was the early 16th-century military and political campaign led by Hernán Cortés that toppled the powerful Aztec civilization and brought central Mexico under Spanish colonial rule.
Aliases (14)
- Spanish conquest of Mexico ×4
- Conquest of Mexico ×1
- Conquest of the Aztec Empire ×1
- Cortés expedition to Mexico ×1
- Destruction of Tenochtitlan ×1
- Fall of Tenochtitlan ×1
- Hernán Cortés expedition to Mexico ×1
- Hernán Cortés’s conquest of the Aztec Empire ×1
- Siege of Tenochtitlan ×1
- Siege of Tenochtitlan (1521) ×1
- Spanish–Aztec War ×1
- conquest of the Aztec Empire ×1
- expedition of Hernán Cortés ×1
- siege of Tenochtitlan ×1