Quotes About Moctezuma

Food became one of the primary tests the Spaniards and the Aztecs used on each other to determine if the other side was amigo or foe. Moctezuma

Cortés remained in Cholula for several weeks, parleying with the emissaries of Moctezuma and preparing to march to the city on the lake.

Cortés had allies in Tlaxcala who were prepared to stand by him in need. For twenty-two days, the captain general and his men rested and recovered from their wounds. During this period, Moctezuma's successor died of smallpox, and Cuauhtémoc, a young man of about twenty-five and Moctezuma's nephew, ascended the Aztec throne.