Diego Rivera, the Great City of Tenochtitlán, 1945 http://www.flickr.com/photos/sftrajan/2597108228/in/photostream/ accessed March 5 2013
The Aztec City of Tenochtitlan as the modern city of Mexico city and how the people of the new city overtook the ancient city what it meant to the citizens of Mexico. Originally inhabited by outcasts, Tenochititlan was created out of a difficult landscape and the need for a large community of trade and progress.Mexico City is considered one of the world's largest cities today and this came to be from the in-habitation of the Aztecs within their capital city. Colonized by the Spanish Governor of Cuba, through a program of capture initiated by Hernan Cortes. (information found on all websites)
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The main site for the governing and conquerors of New Spain, as Mexico was becoming named and the area. Tenchtitlan did not have a chance to overthrow the Spanish due to a high amount of the native peoples contracting a multitude of plagues. "While the Spaniards prospered, the conquered peoples declined disastrously, less because of harsh treatment than because of a series of plagues, many of them new diseases brought over from the Old World, such as smallpox and measles. The native population of the Valle de México shrank, by most estimates, to less than 100, 000 within a century of the conquest." (as found http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mexico/mexico-city/history)
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