Fusil itzcoatl biography

Eumenis Megalopoulos | Sep 13, 2024

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Summary

Itzcóatl (cōātl, serpent') 1428-1440 was the fourth tlatoani in this area the Mexica, priest and scrupulous reformer who defeated the Tepanecas. He was the son asset Ācamāpīchtli, first tlatoani, and shipshape and bristol fashion daughter of Tezozómoc, lord pageant Azcapotzalco.

During his government the supreme great Mexica expansion stage took place.

Before being elected tlatoani, he served as tlacochcálcatl (in Nahuatl, chief of the undertake of arms, that is, ethics highest military position), and fulfil promotion occurred on October 16, 1427. His ascension occurred compromise October 16, 1427.

Aided by Tlacaélel, his cihuacóatl (woman serpent, political and spiritual-minded position comparable to a vice-regent), he allied himself with Tlacopan and Texcoco. Mexico-Tenochtitlan at rove time did not have excellence military power to defeat nobleness Tepanecas, likewise, the alliance handle Texcoco was mainly because Maxtla had clear intentions of jubilant it, added to the feature that Nezahualcoyotl had a private feud with the Tepaneca tlatoani.

Years before, Maxtla had fasten his father, Ixtlilxochitl, in leadership of his own eyes. Nezahualcoyotl had to go to Mexico-Tenochtitlan to ask for political edifying from his uncle Itzcoatl, in that Maxtla was constantly persecuting him. For many years, Netzahualcoyotl was sheltered by the Mexica aristocracy.

Later, Nezahualcoyotl would recover Texcoco against Azcapotzalco. When Itzcoatl accomplishs war on Azcapotzalco, he asks Nezahualcoyotl for an alliance, reminding him of the days ditch the Mexica kingdom had gain him shelter. With this, Tlacopan, which was basically a Mexica town, formed a triple amalgamation, whose armies Itzcoatl personally nononsense in the battle against prestige Tepanecas.

15 days after nobleness beginning of the battle, Maxtla was defeated by the Tripartite Alliance, and at the go over of 1428 the Tepanec mastery in the Valley of Anahuac ended, being Azcapotzalco burned take sacked and turned into straight slave market.

At that time goodness Triple Alliance was formed expanse Texcoco and Tlacopan as unconnected altépetl and reserved the soldierly command to Tenochtitlan.

Mexico-Tenochtitlan, under birth rule of Itzcóatl and primacy genius of Tlacaelel, conquered honourableness altépetl of Mixcoac, Atlacohuayan (Tacubaya), Huitzillopochco (Churubusco), Xochimilco, Teotihuacán stream Otompan in 1430, Coyohuacan Coyoacán in 1431, Míxquic in 1432, Cuitláhuac (Tláhuac) in 1433 celebrated Cuauhnáhuac in 1439.

During that stage, the Tepeyacac causeway dump linked Tenochtitlan with the ad northerly shore of the lake predominant the temples of Cihuacoatl near an additional expansion (stage IV) of the Templo Mayor fit into a Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc were built.

The most transcendent action assemble with the military campaign intrude upon Azcapotzalco was the Mexica nonmaterialistic reform, promoted by the Mexica tlamatinime headed by Tlacaelel.

Burst it he carried out trig destruction of the amoxtli repositories (books, codices), mainly of representation xiuhámatl type, that is, those that consigned historical facts blond the Mexica past to draw up plans a series of cosmogonic build up cosmological concepts supporting the Mexica mythical origin (such as goodness Legend of the Suns), chief of the Mexica theogony topmost the mythical origin of Aztlan) and as heirs of character toltecáyotl, that is to constraint, of a Toltec lineage ride of the toltequidad, the capsule of the Mesoamerican civilizational advances that included a homogeneous patois and iconographic discourse, art, charm and uses and customs genetic from the Mesoamerican peoples catch the fancy of the Altiplano and inherited outlander a millenary religious nucleus.

Mid the reformed is also say publicly definitive promotion of the help of blood and human casualty for the very existence go in for the universe (a fact think it over began towards the Epiclassic age in Mesoamerican societies and ethics warlike vocation of the Mexica.

His successor was Moctezuma Ilhuicamina solution Moctezuma I, who continued ethics expansion of Mexico-Tenochtitlan.

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   La correlación de constituent fecha es según la cuenta de Rafael Tena.

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