A Crash course on the conquest of Mexihco (Spanish war with the Mexica)
It is meant to be brief...so don't kill me for cutting details. That's why I recommend further reading toward the end. Thanks!

Further Reading and Additional Media:

Mexica/Aztec Name Origins: https://youtu.be/-sT6qe09hl4

The American Yawp, “Indigenous America” https://www.americanyawp.com/text/01-the-new-world/

Podcast - Tales from Aztlantis: Episode 31 Azteca or Mexica https://talesfromaztlantis.com/?episode=episode-31-azteca-or-mexica

Biographics: Montezuma II: The End of the Aztec Empire https://youtu.be/_6QDuXUON7k

An Aztec Account of the Spanish Attack http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/the-new-world/an-aztec-account-of-the-spanish-attack/

Alan Knight, Mexico: The Colonial Period

Camila Townsend, Malintzin’s Choices

Laura E. Matthew & Michel R. Oudijk, Indian Conquistadors

Miguel Leon Portilla, The Broken Spears

Susan Deeds, et al. The Course of Mexican History, 8th edition

Matthew Restall, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

Camila Townsend, “Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico” https://doi.org/10.1086/529592

Ida Altman, et al., The Early History of Greater Mexico

Andrea Martinez Baracs, Un gobierno de indios: Tlaxcala, 1519-1750