After a three-month siege, Spanish forces under the command of Hernán Cortés capture Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec Empire.
Cortés' men leveled the city and captured Cuauhtémoc, the Aztec emperor.
Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, was founded by the Aztecs or Mexicans around 1325 AD. According to legend, the Mexicans founded Tenochtitlan after leaving their homeland of Aztlan at the behest of their god Huitzilopochtli.
In less than 200 years, it developed from a small settlement on an island in the western marshes of Lake Texcoco into a powerful political, economic and religious center of the largest empire of pre-Columbian Mexico. Tenochtitlán was a city of great wealth, obtained thanks to the spoils of tribute from the conquered territories.
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