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» This article refers to an alliance of three Aztec city-states. For other alliances of three parties, see Triple Alliance (disambiguation).
The
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
conquistadores and their native allies under
Hernán Cortés in
1521.
The Aztec Triple Alliance was formed by
Itzcoatl of Tenochtitlan,
Nezahualcoyotl of Texcoco, and the smaller city-state of
Tlacopan in 1428. Despite the name, Tenochtitlan was the dominant partner, and Tlacopan the weakest. Tenochtitlan and Texcoco each received 2/5 of all tribute, and Tlacopan received 1/5. By the time the Spanish arrived in 1520, Tlacopan had nearly disappeared as a separate city-state, and the lands of the Alliance were ruled from Tenochtitlan.
At its height, the Alliance controlled most of central
Mexico from coast to coast, except for a small area southeast of Tenochtitlan: the
Kingdom of the
Tlaxcalteca, roughly bounded by the modern-day
Mexican state of
Tlaxcala. It was the Tlaxcalans who allied with Cortés in 1521 to ultimately destroy the Alliance.
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