The beautiful city on a lake was Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec people's vast empire in what is today called Mexico. The conquistador Hernan Cortes was the first European to see Tenochtitlan. His army invaded and conquered the Aztec's lands in 1519-21.
[Tenochtitlan was built on islands in Lake Texcoco. Like the Italian city of Venice, it was crisscrossed by canals and streets.]
[In the 1530s, conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro conquered the huge empire of the Incas, in the country that is now called Peru.]
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