The person who has the record for the longest filibuster, 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957, would be "<span>C. Strom Thurmond," since he refused to even take a bathroom break. </span>
Competing conquistadors arrived and fighting broke out which killed half the Spanish in 1519. Then later in 1521 European diseases killed most of the Natives which allowed Cortes to lead a brutal attack and succeed.
Answer is tax base, the rest are all very important