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ests were more aligned with his than with those of the Aztec nobility. Thus, Moteuczomah Xocoyotl increased his support among nobles throughout the empire and diluted the position of the Aztec hereditary and meritocratic nobles, but without providing additional support to the calpolli leaders and commoners. |
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Early Aztec military efforts had drawn on virtually all of the empire's resources, but because of his predecessor's expansion, his own internal reforms, and the general population increase, the Aztec army was large enough to deal with multiple simultaneous threats during Moteuczomah Xocoyotl's reign. Several armies could be fielded at the same time, undertaking concurrent campaigns, which allowed the Aztecs to deal more effectively with simultaneous disruptions and thus reinforce their reputation for relentlessly redressing affronts. With the large forces at their disposal the Aztecs could go far afield without leaving their home undefended, but they now rarely used maximum force against a given threat. |
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During his second year of rule (campaign of 15034) Moteuczomah Xocoyotl reportedly sent emissaries south to the province of Tlachquiauhco (Tlaxiaco) to request a tlapalizquixochitl tree. This veiled demand to acknowledge vassalage to Tenochtitlan was refused by Malinal, the lord of Tlachquiauhco.
15 Moteuczomah Xocoyotl ordered that no man or woman over fifty was to be spared, because they were the ones responsible for this rebellion.16 Malinal was killed in the battle, and Tlachquiauhco was conquered along with all its subject towns (see map 19). |
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Continuing the consolidation of the region, the army marched to the boundaries of Xaltepec and Cuatzonteccan. There the king di- |
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