Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
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The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, also known as the Conquest of Mexico or the Spanish-Aztec War (1519–21), was one of the primary events in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. There are multiple 16th-century narratives of the events by Spanish conquistadors, their indigenous allies, and the defeated Aztecs. It was not solely a contest between a small contingent of Spaniards defeating the Aztec Empire but rather the creation of a coalition of Spanish invaders with tributaries to the Aztecs, and most especially the Aztecs' indigenous enemies and rivals. They combined forces to defeat the Mexica of Tenochtitlan over a two-year period. For the Spanish, the expedition to Mexico was part of a project of Spanish colonization of the New World after twenty-five years of permanent Spanish settlement and further exploration in the Caribbean.
See also
- Aztec warfare
- Aztecs
- Aztec influence in Spain
- Historiography of Colonial Spanish America
- History of Mexico City
- History of smallpox in Mexico
- New Spain
- Spanish conquest of Chiapas
- Spanish conquest of Guatemala
- Spanish conquest of Honduras
- Spanish conquest of Yucatán
- Spanish Empire