Auítzotl (sometimes rendered as Ahuitzotl) was the Aztec ruler of the city of Tenochtitlán. He took power as Tlatoani in 1486, after his predecessor Tízoc was poisoned. Perhaps the greatest known military leader of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, he began his reign by suppressing a Huastec rebellion, and then swiftly more than doubled the size of lands under Aztec dominance. He conquered the Mixtec, Zapotec, and other peoples from Mexico's Pacific coast down to the western part of Guatemala. Auitzotl also supervised a major rebuilding of Tenochtitlán on a grander scale. The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th century. ... Plan of Tenochtitlan ( Dr Atl) Mexico City statue commemorating the foundation of Tenochtitlan Tenochtitlan (pronounced ) or, alternatively, Mexico-Tenochtitlan, was the capital of the Aztec empire, which was built on an island in Lake Texcoco in what is now central Mexico. ... A tlatoani was a member of the Aztec nobility. ... Events Tízoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies of poisoning. ... Tízoc was the Aztec ruler ( Tlatoani) of the city of Tenochtitlán. ... The term Pre-Columbian is used to refer to the cultures of the New World in the era before significant European influence. ... Mesoamerica is the region extending from central Mexico south to the northwestern border of Costa Rica that gave rise to a group of stratified, culturally related agrarian civilizations spanning an approximately 3,000-year period before the European discovery of the New World by Columbus. ... The Huastec, also rendered as Huaxtec and Huastecos, are an indigenous people of Mexico, historically based in the Mexican states of Hidalgo, Veracruz, San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas concentrated along the route of the Panuco river and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. ... Codex Zouche-Nuttall, a pre-Columbian piece of Mixtec writing, now in the British Museum The Mixtec (or Mixteca) are a Native American people centered in the Oaxaca state of Mexico. ... Zapotec refers to a native people of Mexico, their language family consisting of more than 15 languages, and their historic culture and traditions. ...

Auitzotl was succeeded in 1502 by Moctezuma II (the famous "Montezuma" humiliated by Cortés). Events January 1 - Portuguese explorers sailed into Guanabra Bay, Brazil and mistook it for the mouth of a river which they named Rio de Janeiro May 9 - Christopher Columbus leaves Spain for his fourth and final trip to the New World. May 21 - Portuguese discover island of St Helena. ... Moctezuma II (also Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin) (1466-1520) was an Aztec ruler or huey tlatoani, c. ... Hernán Cortés Hernán Cortés (1485–December 2, 1547) (who was known as Hernando or Fernando Cortés during his lifetime and signed all his letters Fernán Cortés) was the conquistador who conquered Mexico for Spain. ...

The Aztec king Ahuitzotl took the Ahuitzotl as his mascot, but it appears the Aztecs thought of it as a creature in its own right, and not merely a mythical beast representing the king. For the suburb of Sydney, Australia, see Mascot, New South Wales. ...

Tízoc was the Aztec ruler ( Tlatoani) of the city of Tenochtitlán. ... Huey Tlatoani (or Great Speaker, also spelt Uei Tlatoani or Hueyi Tlahtoani) was the Nahuatl title used for the emperor of the Mexica (Aztec). ... Moctezuma II (also Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin) (1466-1520) was an Aztec ruler or huey tlatoani, c. ...