Hernan cortes was aided by Spain to get gold and silver from the Aztecs or just to explore then he found the Aztec empire. He wasn't aided very well in troops, so sense they carried small pox the Aztecs got infected which killed a big majority of them while the conquistadors also attacked. <span />
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Explanation: European interest in China dates back to Marco Polo, the Venetian explorer who completed two expeditions to China in the late 1200s. Polo published a widely read account of his voyages. For generations, his work remained the only authoritative European text on China. The Age of Exploration in the 1500s produced an increase in Western expeditions into Asia. Over the next three centuries, Britain, France, Spain, Holla…
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