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Fig. 21.
War with Azeapotzalco. (Tovar 101; courtesy of the John Carter Brown
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for Tlacopan. Totoquihuaztli immediately "surrendered" as a result of a previous secret alliance with the Aztecs, and was named the new Tepanec king, for which he ultimately received a fifth of the booty and tribute taken and was given the province of Mazahuacan, the westward slopes of the valley of Tolocan, and the Otomies.
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The battle for Azcapotzalco lasted 114 days (see fig. 21) before the city was destroyed12 in 1428. The Aztecs and Acolhuas, assisted by the Huexotzincas and Tlaxcaltecs,13 defeated the Tepanecs, who fled into the mountains and to other Tepanec cities, many of which were conquered in turn.14 This victory overthrew the Tepanec Empire, made Tenochtitlan an independent city-state, set the stage for the creation of the Triple Alliance of Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan, and initiated the Aztec Empire. |
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Maxtlatl fled to Tlachco and obscurity, and the Tepanec kings were no longer recognized as lords but were considered tributaries of |
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