Moctezuma was one of the most important Tlatoanis that Tenochtitlan and the Mexica empire had. Upon the arrival of Cortes and his men, as well as the indigenous allies, he received them at what is ...

Under Moctezuma I, in the late 1440s, the Mexica and their allies marched over 200 miles to extend their empire southward into the present-day states of Morelos and Guerrero. By the 1450s they had ...

A clear example of these is the Moctezuma metro station, who was the tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan at the time when the Spaniards arrived in the capital of the Mexican empire, commanded by ...

(Moctezuma was an emperor of the Aztec Empire.) In one video, a whale shark lies on its back, bleeding from a pelvic wound ...

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 ...