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occasions especially demanding captives. So while religious occasions supplied the rationale for war, they were politically manipulated and were rationalizations for wars rather than causes. A war was begun with Tliliuhqui-Tepec (see map 10).
52 Zacatlan also fought the Aztecs at this time, probably as an ally of Tliliuhqui-Tepec.53 Tliliuhqui-Tepec was unconquered in the apparent xochiyaoyotl, but seven hundred captives were taken for sacrifice.54 |
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At this time (campaign season 148081), news came of some Aztec and Tetzcoca merchants who were killed at Tochpan, and the Aztec army reconquered the area.55 Also listed as conquered during this campaign, but probably without much actual combat, were the towns of Tamomox (Tamuoc), Tenexticpac, Occentepetl (''another mountain,'' not a town name), Tanpatel, Tzapotitlan (Tetzapotitlan), Xiuhcoac, and Micquetlan, as well as Cuauhtlan en route.56 |
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The probable route taken depends on the conquest sequence and the logistical demands of the army. Assuming that Tochpan was conquered first, the army probably marched from Tenochtitlan, up the Teotihuacan valley to Tollantzinco, and then along the previous conquest route via Xolotlan, Pahuatlan, Cuauhchinanco, Tlapacoyan, Chapolicxitlan, and Tozapan, to Tochpan (an error in the sequence of conquests would merely require reversing the route). On the return the army probably simply retraced its route. Cuauhtlan was easily accessible from the lowlands by marching up the Apolco River in the unlikely event that it had to be physically conquered. Here, as with all of Axayacatl's conquests except the successful conquest of Tecuantepec and the unsuccessful campaign against the Tarascans, there were numerous conquests but little extension beyond existing areas of reliable logistical support. |
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