Aztec-Spaniard Wars (The Purple Mantle)

The Aztec-Spaniards Wars (1508-1586) were armed conflicts ocurred during the XVI Century, where the Kingdom of Spain fought against the Aztec Empire over it's territories and the posession of the richess of the latest. There was an initial invasion followed by three wars, all of them ended up in the final defeat of the Spaniard Kingdom and the recognition of the Aztec Empire as sovereign nation.

Background
In August of 1496 Columbus arrived the Island of "La Española" (current Haiti). However after a mutiny, which cost Columbus' life and one of his ships, the mutineers arrived on November to the coast where a local tribe convinced them to move to the Great City of Tenochtitlán. when they arrived they were initially mistaken as "Gods" which tempt them to capture the Emperor Moctezuma Xocoyotzin as a hostage. They were defeated, and instead of sacrifice them to Gods, they were forced to teach them about their culture, weaponry and Horsemanship. As the Spaniards reinforced their position in the caribean through colonization and slavery, they found out about the descendants from the Legendary Island of Aztlán and their riches, and lead by the Conquistador Nicolás de Ovando they attacked the city of Tenochtitlán; they were received by the Mexhicas who were prepared, equipped with primitives fire weapons as well as cavalry of their own. The battle was fierce and the dead many, in an event known as "La Noche Triste" by the Spanish, they were forced to retrieve to La Española. The worst, however, came through the dissemination of several diseases brought by the Spanish soldiers, causing an epidemic on the Aztec territory. Nevertheless, the Empire managed to stand still against the white man's invasion.

The First Aztec-Spaniard War
ocurred between 1508 and 1512
 * Spanish base at La Española, 3 waves.

The Second Aztec - Spaniard War
ocurred between 1520 and 1537
 * Initial Spanish Victories, they captured the nearby coastal area to Tenochtitlán (The "Gobernación of Nueva España")
 * Dutch trading since 1525 allows a rapid recovery of the Aztecs, due to improved and large cuantities of weaponries.

The Third Aztec - Spaniard War
ocurred between 1550 to 1559 and 1570 to 1586
 * The Aztecs reclaimed part of the Coastal Area from the spaniards in 1558.
 * 11 years of a tense non declared yet factual armistice
 * Hostilities recomenced in 1570, and the Spaniards were definitively expelled from the Aztec territory in 1585.
 * 1586: The Spaniards recognize the presence and Soverignity of the Mexicas.

Consecuences

 * during the third war, The Mexica Triple Alliance led by Tenochtitlán had funded into a single compact nation which unified several cloisters of local identities, and because of that the original name of "Ce Mexïhca Anàhuãc" was dropped in behalf of the name of the "Aztec Empire", due to the legend of the mythical origins of the people of Tenochtitlán, used by the Europeans and as moralizing element.
 * The "Aztec Empire is now internationally recognized as a Soverign Nation in Europe.
 * Spain was left economically ruined due to the long conflict and renounces to it's american possessions except for La Florida, La Española and the Caribbean territories.