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In the Aztec campaign of the PC game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, the player plays as Cuauhtémoc, despite the name Montezuma for the campaign itself, and Cuauhtémoc narrates the openings and closings to each scenario. In the next installment to the series, Age of Empires 3: The War Chiefs, Cuauhtémoc is the leader of Aztecs.
The Aztecs left rulers of conquered cities in power so long as they agreed to pay semi-annual tribute to the alliance, as well as supply military forces when needed for the Aztec war efforts. In return, the imperial authority offered protection and political stability and facilitated an integrated economic network of diverse lands and peoples ...
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)
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.
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 ...
Map showing the expansion of the Aztec Triple Alliance. The conquests of Ahuitzotl are marked in yellow. [1]Ahuitzotl (Nahuatl languages: āhuitzotl, Nahuatl pronunciation: [aːˈwit͡sot͡ɬ] ⓘ) was the eighth Aztec ruler, the Huey Tlatoani of the city of Tenochtitlan, son of princess Atotoztli II.
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.
King of Tiliuhcan: Quatlecoatl: Matlalxoch: Tlatolqaca: Matlalxochtzin: Quaquapitzahuac Tlatoani of Tlatelolco?-1372–1407: Ayauhcihuatl: Huitzilihuitl Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan 1379–1396–1417: Miahuaxihuitl: Cacamacihuatl: Itzcoatl Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan?-1427–1440: Huacaltzintli: Matlalatzin: Chimalpopoca Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan 1397 ...