Spanish-Aztec War

1. _____ was the key to victory not brash actions and recklessness.
2. A great city lay in ashes and the _____ Empire was at an end.
6. Gold and silver flowed back into Spain along with what are now modern food staples, such as corn, _____, vanilla, and chili.
7. However, another deadly weapon soon aided the Spaniards. One of the men had _____.
9. Bodies began to fill the gaps in the causeway and men had to run across their fallen _____.
10. Placed in a ceremonial costume, covered with resplendent _____ and made to look massive by way of wooden frames, this warrior scared the Spaniards.
12. Tenochtitlan was badly burned, 2 kings of the Triple Alliance were dead, and the _____ had been wiped out.
13. Taking the _____ and securing water control were the only ways to take the city.
14. The Spaniards noted that the Mexica did not fight at _____.
15. by the afternoon Cortés’ division had reached the Gate of the _____.
16. Cortés organised his forces into four _____.
20. Once in position, Alvarado cut the great _____ at Chapultepec.
23. During a rainy night on the 1st of July 1520, later called the La Noche Triste, the Night of _____, they attempted to flee.
24. Initially friendly, relationships between the Aztecs and the Spaniards became _____
25. While retreating, Cortés ordered the men to burn as many _____ as possible.
26. The drums of war on top of the great _____ were sounded.

1. Cortés' men constructed a _____ bridge to cross.
3. In an attempt to break the _____, Cortés planned an assault with the goal of piercing deep into the city.
4. A Spanish ship had docked nearby, bringing crossbows, horses, and desperately needed _____.
5. The conquistadors could see their comrades dragged up the pyramids in the city and their _____ offered to the gods.
6. The entire causeway was then under attack from innumerable _____.
8. The Spanish built 12 flat-bottomed ______.
11. A few dozen Spaniards and _____ of native allies had died in the fighting.
17. Moctezuma either died from his wounds caused by the rocks or was _____ by the conquistadors.
18. _____ were flung into the building from nearby roofs.
19. But this final act of _____ could not turn the tide of the siege.
21. Food and _____ were getting low and the Mexica had learned how to attack the ships.
22. Cortés was planning something that hadn’t been seen in the region since the rise of the Mexica... a _____.
27. As they neared the marketplace the Mexica sprung an _____.