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On this video we will talk about one of the most brutal clashes between civilization the world has every seen. Hernan Cortes and Montezuma the second will clash.
The Aztec Empire was an alliance of three city-states: Tlacopan, Texcoco, and Tenochtitlan. These three cities ruled the area of the Valley of Mexico from 1428 until they were defeated in 1521 by the forces of the Spanish conquistadores and their native allies, under the command of Hernán Cortés.
The alliance expanded rapidly after its formation, using war to conquer all the land in their area of influence. At the top of their influence, the alliance controlled most of central Mexico and even some more distant territories.
The religion of state of the empire was a polytheistic pantheon, worshiping dozens of deities. Many had cults big enough so that the deity had a spot in the central temple precinct of the capital Tenochtitlan. The imperial main cult tho was that of Huitzilopochtli, the warlike patron god of the Mexica. Peoples in conquered provinces were allowed to continue to pray to their own deities if they added Huitzilopochtli, the imperial god, to their pantheons.
Conquistadors (or conquistadores) were the explorers, soldiers and knights that sailed from Europe to the other continents to conquer territories and estabilish new trade routes for the Spanish and the Portuguese Empire.They colonized much of the world for those nations in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
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