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Historical person
1495–1525
Cuauhtémoc was the final independent ruler of Tenochtitlan, chosen during the Spanish siege in 1521. He organised resistance until the city fell, was captured by Hernán Cortés and was later executed during the expedition to Honduras after accusations of conspiracy.
In Gary Jennings’s Aztec, he witnesses the seizure and death of Moctezuma, the rule of Cuitláhuac and Cuauhtémoc, epidemic disease and the siege that destroys Tenochtitlan in 1521.
Series
The Aztec sequence follows Indigenous and mixed-ancestry protagonists through five centuries of Mexican history, from the height of Tenochtitlan to the wars that ended Spanish rule. The first novel gives Mixtli’s account of the empire under Ahuitzotl and Moctezuma II and carries his life into the conquest. Later…
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