- Hernán Cortés and his men arrive in Mexico in 1519
- Cortés forms alliances with rival Indigenous groups and gains their support against the Aztecs
- Cortés captures Moctezuma, the Aztec emperor, and holds him hostage
- The Spanish and their Indigenous allies besiege Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec empire
- The city falls to the Spanish on August 13, 1521
- The Spanish establish the colony of New Spain and begin to exploit its resources for the benefit of the Spanish crown
Events in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire drag, and drop the correct event of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire
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