Cuitláhuac
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Cuitláhuac was the 10th Huey Tlatoani of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan for 80 days during the year Two Flint. He is credited with leading the resistance to the Spanish and Tlaxcalteca conquest of the
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Isabel Moctezuma
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Doña Isabel Moctezuma was a daughter of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II. She was the consort of Atlixcatzin, a tlacateccatl, and of the Aztec emperors Cuitlahuac and Cuauhtemoc and as such the last Aztec
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…even before Moctezuma's death. Cuitláhuac was ritually married to Moctezuma's eldest daughter, a ten- or eleven-year-old girl, who later was called Isabel Moctezuma. Cuitláhuac ruled just 80 days, perhaps dying from smallpox that had been introduced to the New World by an African suffering from the disease who was…
Artistic interpretation of Isabel Moctezuma at the time of conquest.
From Codex Cozcatzin, a Nahua-authored codex decrying appropriation of indigenous lands. This image shows Isabel Moctezuma (center, pointing, a gesture of power) between her father, Moctezuma II (right) and brother Pedro Moctezuma (right)