Although the Aztec Eventually Drove Cortés and His Conquistadors Out

Although the Aztec eventually drove Cortés and his conquistadors out of their capital city of Tenochtitlán, it eventually fell to siege primarily because of the

A) military technology of the Spanish.
B) infectious diseases brought by the Spanish.
C) rigid political centralization of the Aztecs, which meant that to capture the emperor was to conquer the
Empire.
D bloody religious system of the Aztecs, which contributed to how rapidly the Spanish stress on Christian
) virtue won converts among Indian peasants.