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the retelling as a conquest. Consequently, I feel that present-day Cuernavaca was the town indicated in the records, but not as a military conquest. |
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27. Both of these towns are cited in the Historia de los Mexicanos por sus pinturas (García Icazbalceta 188692, 3:251), and the latter is also attested by Chimalpahin (1965:83 [relación 3]). Both towns were conquered as part of the struggle with Chalco which was subdued the following year. Chimalpahin (1965:185 [relación 7]) refers to the revolt of the Chalcas, but the nature of the political relationship between the Chalcas and the Aztecs up to this time is not entirely clear. |
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28. Ixtlilxóchitl 197577, 1:32728. |
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29. Ixtlilxóchitl 197577, 2:40 [chap. 15]. |
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30. Anales de Cuauhtitlan 1975:66; Clark 1938, 1:28; García Icazbalceta 188692, 3:251; Ixtlilxóchitl 197577, 1:322, 2:40 [chap. 15]; Leyenda de los Soles 1975:128; Paso y Troncoso 193942, 10:118. Although rather distant from the other conquests, Tollantzinco, in present-day Hidalgo, is also listed by the same sources, indicating that it was part of this campaign. This city was far from Tenochtitlan and thus may have been subject to the same limitations as Cuauhnahuac and Cuauht-Inchan. However, Tollantzinco was conquered during a wider conflict that placed many intervening towns in Aztec hands that could have provided logistical support en route and secured their line of march, and the entire route of march was through gentle terrain. Tetzcoco, the most significant target of this campaign, was not conquered until after the death of Huitzilihhuitl (Davies 1974:53). |
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31. These included Azcapotzalco, Tlatelolco, Tenochtitlan, Colhuacan, Tlacopan, Xochimilco, Cuitlahuac, Mizquic, Ixtlapalapan, Mexicatzinco, Huitzilopochco, and Coyohuacan (Coyoacan), but not Chalco. |
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32. Ixtlilxóchitl 197577, 1:32930. |
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33. Ixtlilxóchitl 197577, 1:330. |
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34. A few additional towns listed as conquests appear anomalous. Colhuacan is mentioned by Sahagún (1954:1), but since he lists no previous conquests for any Aztec king, and since Colhuacan was the previous patron city of Tenochtitlan, this may be a reference to their severance of that tie. However, the Anales de Tlatelolco (Berlin and Barlow 1980:53) mentions the sacrifice of Aztecs to the sun occurring in Colhuacan in the year 10 Tochtli. So while outright conquest of Colhuacan is not borne out by the documentation, some serious disruption of ties may have occurred. |
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Azcapotzalco is also mentioned (Anales de Cuauhtitlan 1975:66; Mengin 1952:444), but this is unquestionably erroneous. A last conquest is that of Ahuilizapan (present-day Orizaba, Veracruz) (Berlin and Barlow 1980:54; Mengin 1952:444). But the distance of this town from Tenochtitlan renders its conquest at this time extremely unlikely, vastly more so than the logistical and military constraints that barred actual military conquest of either Cuauht-Inchan or Cuauhnahuac. However, Davies (1973:14647), halfheartedly suggests that perhaps this was executed by Aztec merchants. |
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35. Códice Ramírez 1975:42. |
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36. Chimalpopoca is recorded as having conquered several towns in the northern basinToltitlan, Cuauhtitlan, Otompan, and Tollantzinco, by the |
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