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Historical person
1476–1520
Cuitláhuac was an Aztec ruler and brother of Moctezuma II who briefly governed Tenochtitlan in 1520. He helped lead resistance that drove the Spaniards from the city during La Noche Triste, but died during the smallpox epidemic before the final siege.
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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