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By John Walker

As the year drew to a close, the half-starved inhabitants of Tenochtitlan, the magnificent capital city of the most powerful city-state in the Aztec Empire, found that they were threatened by a massive host of enemies, both foreign and indigenous, which was led by Spanish Captain-General Hernán Cortés and his small band of conquistadors.

Moctezuma II, the ninth emperor of the Aztec Empire, rose to the throne of the empire in He ruled over an empire whose heartland was the central valley of Mexico. The Aztecs, though, never subjugated the Tlaxcalans or Tarascans. The empire was a Triple Alliance of the three tribes with a combined population of roughly six million. Tenochtitlan was home to upwards of , Aztecs.

Cortes had landed on the coast of Mexico in early with men. As he marched inland in the late summer, he initially encountered the Tlaxcalans. The Tlaxcalans surrendered to the Spanish in September after losing a string of battles. Moctezuma planned an ambush of the Spanish, but the Tlaxcalans warned Cortes in time to save his troops. When Moctezuma learned that Cortes had been able to avoid the ambush, he believed that only a god could have known of it in advance. Suspecting that he might be the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, Moctez

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