the then Aztec King, Montezuma II, failed to put up a fight, instead welcoming Cortez into the city as his guest. By way of thanks, Cortez put the king in prison and the colonisation of the ...

For example, I used the word “Aztec” in a paragraph above for ease ... was ruled by the Tenochca and was the realm of Moctezuma. A small leather ball stuffed with the hair of a dead queen ...

The fortunes of the kingdom of Moctezuma, however, were doomed to a swift and spectacular decline once Cortés and his men disembarked on the Mexican coast. (See also: Rare Aztec Map Reveals a ...

In fact, it was these native allies, more than Spanish technology, which allowed Cort¿z to ultimately defeat Montezuma and the Aztec Empire. The campaign is told from the point of view of an ...

When these ruins were rediscovered in the 1800 by settlers, they thought that these were related to the Aztec civilization so ...