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Updated: 2 Feb 2023
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Created byGreyson Ridgway
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1440-Montezuma becomes the leader of the Aztec Empire.1492-Christopher Columbus discovers the Americas thinking they were Asia.1473-Lopa Goncalves is the first European sailler to cross the equator.1498-Vasco de Goma arrives in India after sailing around the southern tip of Africa from Portugal.1524-Giovanni de Verrazzano finds the mouth of the hudson river.1519-Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes comes to Tenochtitlan. the Aztecs treat him well, but in the end he kills there leader Montezuma II.1517-The Aztec priest mark the sighting of a comit in the night sky. They say it was a mark of doom.Periods
1494 -1508-there were around 60,000 people in Tenochtitlan but in around 30 years 90% had died to illnesses from the Eurpeans. That is 1.5-3 million people died.
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