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Fig. 28.
Templo Mayor, with temples to Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc, and skull rack.
(Tovar 122; courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University) |
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towns elsewhere and thus could implicitly warn the Chalcas. But the return of home rule was generally in Tenochtitlan's interests. Direct control was costly: it reduced revenues from the administered towns, increased local hostility, and diminished the effectiveness of control over local matters. Eliminating the position of military governor removed an additional and significant power base for any potential contender for Tenochtitlan's throne. |
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As internal control loosened, however, control over the empire tightened, and Ahuitzotl's next major campaign was into the present-day Guerrero area in response to the rejection of Tenochtitlan's overtures. The main target was Teloloapan,
20 which had become a tributary under Itzcoatl. But now the city was acting as if it were independent. The lords of Teloloapan had refused Ahuitzotl's invitation to attend the dedication of the temple of Huitzilopochtli, and in response, King Ahuitzotl sent noble emissaries to talk to them, presumably the following year (campaign season 148889). |
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