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Why were the Aztecs defeated so easily?

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Cortés eventually had him executed. The Aztecs were severely weakened by diseases that the Spanish brought such as smallpox, influenza, and malaria. Over time, around 80 percent of the people living in the Valley of Mexico died from these disease

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