How would you feel if you had an empire and all of a sudden it falls because of some people that you thought were nice but they weren’t? The Aztec Empire started when a group of people saw an eagle with a snake on its mouth and on a cactus. They were happy and had millions of followers but that all changed when the spanish came to the area. The Aztecs thought they were there gods that came to visit and so they let them in. But they were there to steal the Aztecs gold and make them fall. There was four top reasons why Tenochtitlan was defeated. They are manipulation, alliances, disease, superior weapons. Manipulation because the leader of the spanish, Cortes manipulated the Aztecs by saying he was there god. Alliances because Cortes wouldn’t
