Before Hernán Cortes' arrival in Tenochtitlan, the city was the capital of the Mexica empire, which was ruled by the tlatoani Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, or Moctezuma II. The city was splendid and had ...

At first, having a canoe was a privilege that only well-to-do Tenochtitlan classes could enjoy, that issue caused most people to prefer to travel on foot, a practice that became so common that it ...