***THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO***
  Age of Empires Campaign
Freeware Created by: Arnaldo Lucci 1998 
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Hi, welcome to the AOE campaign The Conquest of Mexico (5 scenarios).
You will participate in one of History's most cruel conquest.
I hope you like this Campaign. I really worked hard for 2 weeks
to create something as acurate as it can get.

Please keep in mind that there are some limitations with AOE's
civilizations and the Native American prehispanic civilizations.

Your main task is to lead the Spaniards towards the city of Tenochtitlan
in central Mexico build a city in place of the aztec city.

**SOME HISTORY
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Spaniards had an important colony growing in the west indies. 
Cuba was the starting point of the expedition. Cortes and his men 
were actually looking for a city rich in gold. Rumors from the Aztec
Empire and its capital Tenochtitlan were heard by the spaniards in 
mouth of west indie's natives.

They said that the city in central mexico had gold covered temples
and buildings.
Cortes starts an expedition with some mercenaries,horses and soldiers.
He also got support from the catholic church which wanted to participate
in the gold rush.
So with the task to convert land and it's natives to the spanish crown
and to catholic religion he started his way.

And this is where your campaign begins, when you get to Cozumel island
in the Caribean in search for food and water to continue you journey.

The 5 scenarios are:
1.- Cozumel Island.
2.- Ville of the vera Cruz.
3.- Chololan.
4.- Fall of the Aztec Empire
5.- The colony of New Spain.

INSTALATION.
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After unzipping your files:

Move the file:
 
The Conquest of Mexico.cpn 
to your campaign file in AOE's directory.

Enjoy your Campaign and remember that the ancient cultures in Mexico
were not savages. They had a great civilization and great cultural
and astronomic advances.

Feedback
alucci@yahoo.com
Mexico October 1998.


