| By Spanish accounts, he was killed in this assault by the Mexica people, though they claim he had been killed instead by the Spanish. |
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| By the reign of Ahuitzotl, the Mexica were the largest and most powerful faction in the Aztec Triple Alliance. |
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| Even though the alliance still technically ran the empire, the Mexica Emperor now assumed nominal if not actual seniority. |
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| After the death of Nezahualcoyotl, the Mexica Emperors had become the de facto rulers of the alliance. |
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| Motecuzoma II used his reign to attempt to consolidate power more closely with the Mexica Emperor. |
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| A thriving culture developed, and the Mexica civilization came to dominate other tribes around Mexico. |
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| Despite early attempts by the Mexica, the Tlaxcalteca were never conquered by the Aztec Triple Alliance. |
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| There is also the resemblance between the Hindu game of pachesi and the Mexica patolli, so close as to be virtually identical. |
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| In New Spain these grants were modeled after the tribute and corvee labor that the Mexica rulers had demanded from native communities. |
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| This group was the Mexica, who over the course of the next three centuries founded an empire named Tenochtitlan. |
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| The imperial cult, specifically, was that of Huitzilopochtli, the distinctive warlike patron god of the Mexica. |
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| After they served Culhuacan in battle, the king appointed one of his daughters to rule over the Mexica. |
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| According to mythological native accounts, the Mexica instead sacrificed her by flaying her skin, on the command of their god Xipe Totec. |
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| When the king of Culhuacan learned of this, he attacked and used his army to drive the Mexica from Tizaapan by force. |
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| The Mexica moved to an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco, where an eagle nested on a nopal cactus. |
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| The new Mexica city allied with the city of Azcapotzalco and paid tribute to its king, Tezozomoc. |
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| With Mexica assistance, Azcopotzalco began to expand into a small tributary empire. |
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| Until this point, the Mexica ruler was not recognized as a legitimate king. |
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| Mexica leaders successfully petitioned one of the kings of Culhuacan to provide a daughter to marry into the Mexica line. |
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| Eventually, war erupted between the two states, and the Mexica played a vital role in the conquest of Texcoco. |
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| The Mexica supported Tezozomoc's preferred heir, Tayahauh, who was initially enthroned as king. |
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| But his son, Maxtla, soon usurped the throne and turned against factions that opposed him, including the Mexica ruler Chimalpopoca. |
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| Nezahualcoyotl recruited military help from the king of Huexotzinco, and the Mexica gained the support of a dissident Tepanec city, Tlacopan. |
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| After Moctezuma I succeeded Itzcoatl as the Mexica emperor, more reforms were instigated to maintain control over conquered cities. |
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| On the death of Itzcoatl, Motecuzoma I was enthroned as the new Mexica emperor. |
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| After 1521, the wealth and credit generated by the acquisition of the Mexica Empire funded auxiliary forces of black conquistadors that could number as many as five hundred. |
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| Soon thereafter, suspecting treachery on the part of their hosts, the Spaniards took Moctezuma II, the king or Hueyi Tlatoani of the Mexica, hostage. |
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| While the Tepanecs of Azcapotzalco expanded their kingdom with help from the Mexica, the Acolhua city of Texcoco grew in power in the eastern portion of the lake basin. |
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| The Mexica saw this vision on what was then a small swampy island in Lake Texcoco, a vision that is now immortalized in Mexico's coat of arms and on the Mexican flag. |
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| The Mexica were the last of Aztlan migrants to arrive in Central Mexico. |
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| Uncooperative kings were replaced with puppet rulers loyal to the Mexica. |
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| A new imperial tribute system established Mexica tribute collectors that taxed the population directly, bypassing the authority of local dynasties. |
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