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Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
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Spanish and Portuguese colonizers of the Age of Discovery
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Aztec Empire
Imperial alliance of Nahua city states located in central Mexico during the 15th-16th centuries
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Battle of Otumba
1520 battle during the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs
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