Tlaxcalan

(noun)

The people of a pre-Columbian city and state in Central Mexico, who helped Cortés conquer the Aztec empire.

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Examples of Tlaxcalan in the following topics:

  • The Aztec in the Colonial Period

    • The Spanish campaign began in February 1519, and was declared victorious on August 13, 1521, when a coalition army of Spanish forces and native Tlaxcalan warriors led by Hernándo Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured the emperor Cuauhtemoc and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire.
    • The Spanish, Tlaxcalans, and reinforcements returned a year later, on August 13, 1521, to a civilization that had been wiped out by famine and smallpox.