Timeline

• Late 1200s - Aztecs settle in Basin of Mexico
• 1427 - Aztecs begin expanding empire and making alliances
• 1428 - Triple alliance founded from cities; Tenochtitlan. Tlacopan, and Texcoco
• 1466 - Moctezuma is born
• 1500 - Spain is a new nation
• Oct 12 1500 - Christopher Columbus lands in Bahamas
• 1502 - Moctezuma becomes emperor
• 1511 - Geronimo de Aguilar is shipwrecked on his way to Jamaica and is enslaved by Mayans
• Dec 1518 - Fleet is assembled in Cuba under Velazques
• 10th Dec 1518 - Fleet sets sail under Hernan Cortes two weeks before it's supposed to
• Apr 1519 - Conquistadors reach Tatonacs and meet Tendile
• May 1519 - Tendile gives the Spanish gifts from Moctezuma. Arguments between supporters of Velazquez and Hernan