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The Tepanecs or Tepaneca are a Mesoamerican people who arrived in the Valley of Mexico in the late 12th or early 13th centuries.[1] The Tepanec were a sister culture of the Aztecs (or Mexica) as well as the Acolhua and others -- these tribes spoke the Nahuatl language and shared the same general pantheon, with local and tribal variations.

Welcomed to the Valley of Mexico by Xolotl, the Tepanecs settled on the west shores of Lake Texcoco. Under their tlatoani, Acolnahuacatl, the Tepanec took over Azcapotzalco from the indigenous inhabitants.

In the early 15th century, Tezozomoc brought the Tepanec to their height of power; at that point they controlled nearly all of the Valley of Mexico as well parts of the Toluca and Morelos valleys. Native sources say that Tezozomoc lived to the age of over 100 and was legendary for his generalship and statesmanship.

The death of Tezozomoc in 1426 brought his sons Tayauh and Maxtla to the throne, with Maxtla most likely poisoning Tayauh.

In 1428, Maxtla was overthrown by the nascent Aztec Triple Alliance, which included the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan and the Acolhua of Texcoco, as well as Maxtla's fellow Tepanecs of Tlacopan.

With the rise of the Aztec empire, Tlacopan became the predominant Tepanec city, although both Tenochtitlan and Texcoco eclipsed Tlacopan’s size and prestige.

Footnotes

1. ^ The dates vary by source, including 1152 CE in Anales de Tlatelolco, 1210 from Chimalpahin, and 1226 from Ixtlilxochitl (as interpreted by Smith, p. 169).

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Valley of Mexico is a highlands plateau in central Mexico roughly coterminous with the present-day Distrito Federal and the eastern half of the State of Mexico. Surrounded by mountains and volcanoes, the Valley of Mexico was a center for several pre-Columbian civilizations,
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The Acolhua are a Mesoamerican people who arrived in the Valley of Mexico in or around the year 1200 CE.[1]
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Lake Texcoco was a lake in Mexico. It formerly occupied a great extension of the Valley of Mexico, forming part of system of five lakes, which included Lakes Xaltocan, Zumpango, Chalco and Xochimilco, all between 2,270 and 2,750 meters above sea level.
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Tlatoani (IPA: [tɬaʔtoˈ(w)aːni]; plural tlatoque, IPA: [tɬaʔˈtoʔkeʔ]) is the Nahuatl term for the ruler of an
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Azcapotzalco ("Place of the ants" in Nahuatl) is one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) into which Mexico's Federal District is divided.

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Tezozomoc (also Tezozómoc, Tezozomoctli, Tezozomoctzin) was a Nahuatl male name. Bearers of the name included:
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Morelos

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Maxtla was a Tepanec ruler (tlatoani) of Azcapotzalco from 1426 to his death in 1428. He succeeded his father Tezozomoc, possibly through assassination of his elder brother Tayauh. His reign saw a rapid decline in the fortunes of Azcapotzalco.
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Aztec Triple Alliance, also known as The Aztec Empire, was an alliance of three Aztec city-states: Tenochtitlan; Texcoco; and Tlacopan. These city-states ruled the area in and around the Valley of Mexico from 1428 until they were defeated by the Spanish
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Tenochtitlan or Mexico-Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Aztec civilization, built on an island in Lake Texcoco in what is now the Distrito Federal in central Mexico.
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Texcoco (Classical Nahuatl: Tetzco(h)co, IPA: [tetsˈkoʔko]) was a major Acolhua city-state in the central Mexican plateau region of Mesoamerica during the Late Postclassic period of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican
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Tlacopán (meaning "florid plant on flat ground"), also called Tacuba, was a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city-state situated on the western shore of Lake Texcoco.

Founded by Tlacomatzin, Tlacopan was a Tepanec kingdom subordinate to nearby Azcapotzalco.
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The Anales de Tlatelolco (Annals of Tlatelolco) is a codex manuscript written in Nahuatl, using Latin characters, by anonymous Aztec authors in 1528 in Tlatelolco, only seven years after the fall of the Aztec Empire.
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Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl (ca. 1568, Texcoco—1648, Mexico City) was a Mexican historian.

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A Mestizo born between 1568 and 1580, Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl was a direct descendant of Ixtlilxóchitl I and Ixtlilxóchitl II, tlatoque
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