Montezuma II
rules over a powerful and prosperous empire of warriors, farmers,
and merchants. We live in hundreds of cities and towns throughout
the Valley of Mexico. The largest city in the empire is the capital,
Tenochtitlan, which has a population of more than 200,000. Few other
cities of the world can boast of having so many inhabitants.
The Mexica
came to the Valley of Mexico about 300 years ago. We were subjects
of other people of this region before founding Tenochtitlan nearly
200 years ago. Emperor Montezuma I and his successors conquered
many people to the east and south of Tenochtitlan. Now in this year
of
13-Slate,
Montezuma II rules an
empire
that stretches between the two great waters and from the volcanoes
in the north to the rain forests in the south.
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