Texcoco

They said that in that direction and nine days' march towards the sea was a village called Auté, where the Indians had plenty of corn and also beans and melons, and that, being so near the sea, they obtained fish, and that those were their friends.

Seeing how poor the country was, taking into account the unfavorable reports about its population and everything else, and that the Indians made constant war upon us, wounding men and horses whenever they went for water by shooting arrows at us, which they could do from the lagoons where we could not reach them, and that they had killed a chief of Texcoco called Don Pedro, whom the commissary had taken along with him, we agreed to depart and go in search of the sea and of the village of Auté, which they had mentioned.

And so we left, arriving there five days after.

The first day we traveled across lagoons and trails without seeing a single Indian.

He ruled a growing island city-state that still paid tribute to a more powerful neighbor.

The imperial Aztec order that later dazzled the Spanish, the triple alliance of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, took shape only after his death.

His Nahuatl name, Chemalpopoca, means smoking shield.

The glyph that accompanied him in later pictorial manuscripts shows a war shield with curls of smoke rising from it, an image of battlefield dust and martial prestige.

Another son, sometimes named Sihuitl Temoc or Teuctlehuac, briefly succeeded him for about 60 days before dying.

When Chimalpopoca took power, Tenochtitlan was not the capital of an empire.

It was a prosperous but subordinate altipedal, or city-state, on an island in Lake Texcoco.

The Mexica paid tribute and military service to Azcapotzalco, the Tipanec capital on the western shore of the lake.

I mean, this is in some ways part two of Eduardo's...

How do you say it? Texoloco? Texcoco.

Texcoco.

That's right.

Texcoco episode where he talked about his organizing... around dog rescue stuff, but gave the historic kind of a historic view of how he sees himself situated in that location, in that community, in that history, in that place and in that time.

Um, and I really remember your, uh, To organize people, you've got to build trust.

Can you walk me through the things that you've got to build trust? I don't have it

I didn't realize like almost 300 people were going to watch.

Maya is even a distinct ancestry on many genetic tests.

Tenochtitlan was built on islands in Lake Texcoco and became one of the largest cities in the world at the time.

They had canals, markets, and farms called chinampas.

They were built right into the lake.

The name Aztec comes from Asplan, which is their legendary ancestral homeland.

and was popularized by historians much later in a typical misunderstanding by European explorers and historians.

The quote-unquote Aztecs were actually a group of neighboring city-states that formed a triple alliance in 1428 among the Tenochtitlan, the Texcoco, and the Tlacopan.

So the Mexica of Tenochtitlan eventually became the dominant member of the alliance.

We're down to just Twai to extend her lead.

Question eight, Mexico City was built on the ruins of what Aztec capital originally founded on an island in Lake Tex- Texcoco?

Uh.

That's a lot of sighing coming from Kels.

Yeah.

And there's a whole history behind that and Texaco and all those that, that may be a, another series that I could do just on.

I think so.

I think so.