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ANTH 1145 1st Edition Lecture 20- First Moctezuma succeeded Itzcoatl after he dieso Also known as huehueMoctezma- Itzcoatl wanted to pass rulership to Tlacaelel but he said no and gave it to moctezuma- Line of Cihuacoatlo Children of Tlacaelel weren’t subject to being voted in to rulership- Moctezuma was in power for 28 years- Tezozomoc had children with the daughter of Moctezumao 3 of them- Moctezuma came to power in 1440- Tradition had it that newly inaugurated tlatoani had to wage a war to prove his skills and courageo Done within the first one or two years- Moctezuma waged war against Chalco- Mesoamerican warfareo 1) Actual warfare or the credible threat of warfare Other places need to perceive you as invincibleo 2) Strategic marriage alliances Most are aggressive No loveo These are not mutually exclusive o Failed marriages can end or start waro Warfare was highly ritualized Typical battles are one on one martial combat and they try to outmaneuver the other and try to capture the other- They are not trying to kill in the battlefield  Once you were captured you were later sacrifice Xochiyaotl: flower waro There were moments when they did real battles and the objective was to destroy a whole village for territorial expansiono Xochiyaotl sometimes became wars of attrition that lasted for decades and then evolved into real conquest for territorial or hegemonic purposes This was the case with chalco- It lasted 25years and gradually transformed into a real waro One of the brothers of moctezuma (tlacahuepan the ezahuahuacatl) was captured and killed and that added to the escalation of the warThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.o Chalco people have a plan to offer ^ to marry one of their women so that their child would then have chalcan blood He didn’t accept their proposal and killed himself o The war with chalco was interrupted by the great famine of the year 1 rabbit (1454) Didn’t rain for 4 years o 1447: early frost, locust attacks, and then a drought depleted the grain reservesof the Basin of Mexicoo Moctezuma fed the people with food stored in the granaries but when that ran out he said everyone was on their owno People then sold their children to the gulf of mexico (which wasn’t affected by the drought) Got corn cobs for their children (500 for boys and 400 for girls) Children were to be slaves but they were fed Parents planned to buy them back latero 1455 draught was over and crops were abundant Learned they couldn’t rely on the crops of the highlands so decided to capture the tributary towns- Expansive Polity: conquer everyone who is close and weak- Independent Polity: too strong to be conquered now so they return later to conquero They just go around to conquer other weak ones - Go to Gulf of Mexico to get children back and then also conquer themo After this they become the empire of Mesoamerica With moctezuma they control ½ of


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