1. The Conquest of Mexico
... allowed to settle was a group of islands in the center of Lake Texcoco. On one of these islands the Aztecs founded the sacred city of Tenochtitlan and immediately built an altar to their patron god, Huitzilopochtli, God of War. As the city grew, a splinter group broke off and settled on a neighboring island, founding the city of Tlatelolco. The two cities eventually merged with Tlatelolco becoming the ... trading center and Tenochtitlan becoming the political and religious capital. The Mexican nation steadily rose in power but remained under the yoke of the Tepanec until the king Itzcoa...
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