USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

PRE COLUMBIAN AMERICA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Aztec emperor who was defeated by Hernando Cortez
A
Moctezuma I
B
Moctezuma II
C
La Malinche I
D
Quetzalcoatl
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Spanish campaign against the Aztec Empire had its final victory on 13 August 1521, when a coalition army of Spanish forces and native Tlaxcalan warriors led by Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured the emperor Cuauhtémoc and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire.

Detailed explanation-2: -Between 1519 and 1521 Hernán Cortés and a small band of men brought down the Aztec empire in Mexico, and between 1532 and 1533 Francisco Pizarro and his followers toppled the Inca empire in Peru.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was during his reign that Spaniard Hernán Cortés first landed in Mexico, and his arrival led to Montezuma’s death in 1520 and the end of the Aztec empire in 1521.

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