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Cuauhtémoc (Nahuatl pronunciation: [kʷaːʍˈtemoːk] ⓘ, Spanish pronunciation: [kwawˈtemok] ⓘ), also known as Cuauhtemotzín, Guatimozín, or Guatémoc, was the Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521, and the last Aztec Emperor. [1] The name Cuauhtemōc means "one who has descended like an eagle", and is commonly rendered in ...
Cuitláhuac (Spanish pronunciation: [kwiˈtlawak] ⓘ, modern Nahuatl pronunciation ⓘ) (c. 1476 – 1520) [1] or Cuitláhuac (in Spanish orthography; Nahuatl languages: Cuitlāhuac, [2] Nahuatl pronunciation: [kʷiˈt͡ɬaːwak], honorific form: Cuitlahuatzin) was the 10th Huey Tlatoani (emperor) of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan for 80 days during the year Two Flint (1520). [3]
1892 illustration of Moctezuma II. Moctezuma Xocoyotzin [N.B. 1] (c. 1466 – 29 June 1520), retroactively referred to in European sources as Moctezuma II, [N.B. 2] was the ninth emperor of the Aztec Empire (also known as the Mexica Empire), [1] reigning from 1502 or 1503 to 1520.
Son of Axayacatl (1472–1481). Oversaw a period of centralization and strengthening of the Aztec Empire. Disciplined and highly successful ruler before he made contact with the Spaniards in 1519, whereafter the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire began. [14] [15] c. 1466–1520 (aged 53–54)
Cuauhtémoc, the last Hueyi Tlatoani surrendered to Cortés on August 13, 1521. It took nearly another 60 years of war before the Spaniards completed the conquest of Mesoamerica (the Chichimeca wars ), a process that could have taken longer were it not for three separate epidemics, including a rare strain of paratyphoid fever , [ 8 ] that took ...
Doña Isabel Moctezuma (born Tecuichpoch Ichcaxochitzin; 1509/1510 – 1550/1551) was a daughter of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II.She was the consort of Atlixcatzin, a tlacateccatl, [1] and of the Aztec emperors Cuitlahuac, and Cuauhtemoc and as such the last Aztec empress.
The Aztec Empire or the Triple Alliance (Classical Nahuatl: Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, [ˈjéːʃkaːn̥ t͡ɬaʔtoːˈlóːjaːn̥]) was an alliance of three Nahua city-states: Mexico-Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan.
The Aztecs [a] (/ ˈ æ z t ɛ k s / AZ-teks) were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to the 16th centuries.