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    CONQUEST OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE

    Dec 27, 2019 3 minutes

    1517-18

    EARLY EXPLORATIONS OF MEXICO

    Francisco Hernández de Córdoba and Juan de Grijalva lead expeditions to the Yucatán Peninsula and the southern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Grijalva encounters a delegation of Motecuhzoma II and a Native American joins his expedition. This man is baptised and becomes an interpreter on Hernán Cortés’s later expedition.

    February-April 1519

    CORTÉS’S EXPEDITION

    Hernán Cortés commands the third Spanish expedition to the Mexican coast. Although he is ordered to simply explore and trade, Cortés establishes

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