Moctezuma in a sentence

There he married Francisca de la Cueva de Valenzuela. citation In 1627, their son Pedro Tesifón de Moctezuma was given the title Count of Moctezuma (later altered to Moctezuma de Tultengo), and thus became part of the Spanish nobility.

He describes Moctezuma's issue and counts that Moctezuma had nineteen children – eleven sons and eight daughters.

The conquests of Moctezuma II are marked by the colour green (based on the maps by Ross Hassig in Aztec Warfare) As a symbol of resistance towards Spanish the name of Moctezuma has been invoked in several indigenous rebellions.

He also throws in a heap of magic mushrooms, magic tomatoes, and two “very fine slices of cactus, glazed with honey”, that have Moctezuma and Cortés tripping so hard they don’t even need translators.

The accompanying visual, choreographed by Leo Moctezuma and creatively directed by Nicola Formichetti, adds an avant-garde magnetism to the song, reinforcing McLaurin’s message that love, both in music and life, is worth fighting for.

The Aztec emperor Moctezuma often dined from more than 300 dishes, according to Spanish accounts.

Education Secretary Esteban Moctezuma says while some countries just closed down schools, Mexico put safety first and got innovative.

Prisoners were sacrificed in regular temple rituals – lots of them, by Moctezuma’s time – but this practice, Townsend argues, was not as central to the Aztec political order as some scholars have made it seem.

According to Díaz, she spoke to emissaries from Moctezuma in their native tongue Nahuatl and pointed to Cortés as the chief Spaniard to speak for them.

According to the Dominican friar Diego Durán in The History of the Indies of New Spain (published c. 1581), mushrooms were eaten in festivities conducted on the occasion of the accession to the throne of Aztec emperor Moctezuma II in 1502.

Among the Aztecs' greatest achievements, Moctezuma and Nezahualcoyotl of Texcoco organized the construction and completion of a double aqueduct pipe system, supplying the city of Tenochtitlan with fresh water.

At some time during that period Moctezuma became a prisoner in his own house.

But quickly Cortés learned that several Spaniards on the coast had been killed by Aztecs while supporting the Totonacs, and decided to take Moctezuma as a hostage in his own palace, indirectly ruling Tenochtitlán through him.

Cortés, H. 1520, p. 77. Though no serious conclusions were made, this started the relationship between Moctezuma and the Spaniards on a bad note.

Descendants in Mexico and the Spanish nobility Anonymous portrait of Moctezuma II, 17th century Engraving of Hernan Cortes, 19th century.

Díaz del Castillo (1963, p. 294) Cortés similarly reported that Moctezuma was stabbed by his countrymen.

Donald E. Chipman, Moctezuma's Children: Aztec Royalty Under Spanish Rule, 1520-1700.

Hernán Cortés ordered Moctezuma to ask his people to stop fighting.

Historian James Lockhart suggests that the people needed to have a scapegoat for the Aztec defeat, and Moctezuma naturally fell into that role.

In his first description of Moctezuma, Díaz del Castillo writes: "The Great Montezuma was about forty years old, of good height, well proportioned, spare and slight, and not very dark, though of the usual Indian complexion.