Certain factors enabled the Spanish to defeat the Aztecs. First, the Spanish had the advantage of superior weaponry.Second,Cortes was able to enlist the help of various native groups.With the help of a native woman translator (Malinche), Cortes learned that some natives resented the Aztecs. They hated their harsh practices.Through Malinche, Cortes convinced the Natives to fight on his side.Finally and most important, the Natives could do little to stop the invisible warrior that marched along the Spaniards.Measels, mumps, small pox, and typhus were just some of the diseases Europeans were to bring with them to the Americas. Those diseases killed many native Americans because they had no natural immunity against them.
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