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Date May 22, 1521 - August 13, 1521
Location Mexico • Tenochtitlán
Participants Aztec • Spain
Context Viceroyalty of New Spain

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Battle of Tenochtitlán
Aztec sacrifice
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar and Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés meeting Montezuma II
Montezuma II
Cortés and his men retreating from Tenochtitlán
smallpox
Great City of Tenochtitlán
Aztec
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Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés
Spanish conquistador
Cuauhtémoc
Aztec emperor