deeply religious (1466–1520). Montezuma II was the ninth emperor of the Aztec Empire. For most of his reign, he controlled a large portion of what is now central and southern Mexico. However, Montezuma was doomed to be the last great Aztec king. In 1519 soldiers from Spain, led by Hernán Cortés, arrived in the Aztec lands. By 1521 Montezuma was dead, and the Aztec Empire was no more.

weak-willed, superstitious,indecisive, elitist

a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.