Americas by the 1500s
… she knew about the Aztecs. In 1521, after two years of resistance, the Aztec Empire fell to the Spanish. Montezuma … conquered by the Toltecs, who absorbed Mayan architecture, art and religion. Even later, the Aztecs took over and at the … like chicken pox and measles, to which they had no natural resistance. Some believe that up to 80 percent of Native …