mexico-tenochtitlan was the location of the combined aztec empire.
mexico-tenochtitlan was the location of the combined aztec empire.
what is the location of the combined aztec empire?
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the aztec empire, or the triple alliance (, ]), was an alliance of three nahua city-states: , , and . these three city-states ruled the area in and around the valley of mexico from 1428 until the combined forces of the spanish and their native allies under slaughtered them in 1521.
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qualpopoca first appears in the historical record when he was ordered by the aztec emperor moctezuma xocoyotzin to take control of the region surrounding the aztec city of nauhtla. nauhtla was a border city of the aztec empire, the garrison there exerting aztec dominion over the local population, who were largely totonac in ethnic origin. the province had only recently been added to the aztec empire through conquest, and when hernán cortés arrived in the region (now the mexican state of veracruz) in 1519, one of his first acts was to overthrow aztec dominion by seizing aztec tribute collectors in the town of quiahuiztlan and only returning them after a personal request from the aztec emperor. he then routed the aztec garrison at the town of tizapancingo and returned the state to the native totonacs under their leader tlacochcalcatl of cempoala.
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