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important aspect of politics in fourteenth-century mexico, and as relative newcomers, the mexica were at a disadvantage. on the death of tenoch, the previous ruler, in , the elders of the tenochca calpulli (council) decided to elect a tlatoani who could secure the fledgling city's position through ties
mexica from tizaapan, some intermarriage had taken place between the two peoples during their period of association. acamapichtli was the product of one such union. his father, opochtzin, was a mexica leader, while his mother atotoztli was the daughter of the culhua tlatoani, nauhyotl. he also had ties...
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