Norse and Aztecs · TURNING POINT ·
Meeting of Moctezuma and Cortés (1519)
On the Norse and Aztecs map as “Huitzillan — Moctezuma meets Cortés”
8 November 1519 — Moctezuma II came out with his nobles to meet Hernán Cortés at Huitzillan, near where the southern causeway entered the city, and lodged the Spaniards in a palace beside the sacred precinct. Their astonished accounts describe the city at its height.
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- Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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