Historians believe that Emperor Moctezuma, who ruled from 1502 to 1520, probably gave the plume to Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes who took it to Europe. Lopez Obrador's plea came on the ...
A day earlier, Aztec Emperor Moctezuma was killed, or possibly assassinated, according to the native informants of one Spanish chronicler, which promoted a frenzied battle that forced Cortes ...
and met Aztec emperor Moctezuma in a place known as Huitzilan, just in front of the present-day hospital. Cortés had conquered the city by 1521, and to honor that original encounter, he founded ...
Soon Moctezuma was dead; Tenochtitlan was reduced by the Spaniards to smoking rubble, and with no emperor and no capital, the Aztec Empire was effectively destroyed. These catastrophes were ...
chocolate was first consumed in liquid form by the Olmec people of northwestern Central America around 1500 B.C. It was even enjoyed by the Aztec emperor Montezuma, and the Aztec word for it ...
and met Aztec emperor Moctezuma in a place known as Huitzilan, just in front of the present-day hospital. Cortés had conquered the city by 1521, and to honor that original encounter, he founded ...