Ahuitzotl
Aztec/Mexica · mortal · triple alliance · Recorded classification
Ahuitzotl is the empire at its largest and its worst. He took Mexica power to both oceans and nearly to Guatemala, and he opened the rebuilt Templo Mayor in 1487 with a sacrifice whose reported death toll — eighty thousand over four days, in the sources — is almost certainly a propaganda figure and is still, at any plausible discount, a mass killing. He is named after a water creature that drags people under. He died a few years later of an injury sustained when a new aqueduct he had insisted on flooded Tenochtitlan, which is an ending with a certain shape to it.
Children
Domains
- sovereignty
- war
Relations
- sibling: AxayacatlBrother.Reference treatment of the three brothers who ruled in succession. (secondary)
- sibling: TizocBrother, and his predecessor.Reference treatment of the three brothers who ruled in succession. (secondary)
- father of: CuauhtemocSon, and the last tlatoani.Reference treatment of Cuauhtemoc as the son of Ahuitzotl. (secondary)
Sources
- Ahuitzotl is the eighth tlatoani of Tenochtitlan, reigning 1486-1502, the empire's greatest conqueror, who dedicated the rebuilt Templo Mayor in 1487 and died after a flood caused by his own aqueduct.: Reference treatments of Ahuitzotl, his conquests and the dedication of the Templo Mayor. (secondary)