TRANSLATION

we known for a long time of the writings of our ancestors that neither I[moctezuma], neither any of the ones that mored in this land, is natural of her, only of the foreigners that came from piezao ver distant, and we know besides that an overlord, of whom were all the vassales brought to our people to this region. And he returned to his native land and after many years came again, moment in which all the ones that had remained were married with the native women and they had built to villages and to children srvants. And when he disired to conduct them far away that would not go again neither even that they would not admit him asd his leader, and so he left. And we have maintaned provided that the ones that they descended of him they would come to conquer this land and take ourselves as their vassals. So due to the place of which you demand to come, to know, of where the sun raises himself, and the things that you says us of the great Mister or king that sent him here, we creates and is sure that he is our Mister natural, especially therefore you say that he has known about us by a certain hour. It be assured so that we will obey him and we will maintain him as our Mister instead of that great sovereign whose do you speak; and in this there will not be offense or treason any. I know full well of all that has happened of puntunchan to here, and also I know the about of tascalteca they go him said a lot badly of me; creates what you see they are their for those are only my enemies, and some were my vassals and rebeled against me in their to come and said those things to win favor with you also I know that they have said him that be the walls of my houses, fact he...

It is unknown who Moztezuma wrote this letter to, at first it was in Spanish. We got the translation from Aztec Team 2.

BY D'Ana Munn, Stephanie Yapez, & Sammie Birks

>>TIMELINE<<
1502
Moctezuma II became ruler. Aztec Empire at height.
1519
Cortez comes to Mexico. Moctezuma II killed.
1520
Cuitlahuac elected ruler.
1521
Tenochtitlan destroyed.
1522
Tenochtitlan rebuilt, named Mexico City. Declared capital of Spanish colony of New Spain.





When the Spaniards were invited to visit Moctezuma, this is what they said:

So we stood looking about us, or that huge and cursed temple stood so high that from it one could see over everything very well, and we saw the three causeways which led into Mexico, that is the causeway of Iztapalapa by which we had entered four days before, and that of Tacuba, and that of Tepeaquilla, and we saw the fresh water that comes from Chapultepec which supplies the city, and we saw the bridges on the three causeways which were built at certain distances apart through which the water of the lake flowed in and out from one side to the other, and we beheld on that great lake a great multitude of canoes, some coming with supplies of food and others returning loaded with cargoes or merchandise; and we saw that from every house of that great city and of all the other cities that were built in the water it was impossible to pass from house to house, except by drawbridges which were made of wood or in canoes; and we saw in those cities Cues [temples] and oratories like towers and fortresses and all gleaming white, and it was a wonderful thing to behold; then the houses with flat roofs, and on the causeways other small towers and oratories which were like fortresses.
After having examined and considered all that we had seen we turned to look at the great market place and the crowds of people that were in it, some buying and others selling, so that the murmur and hum of their voices and words that they used could be heard more than a league off. Some of the soldiers among us who had been in many parts of the world, in Constantinople, and all over Italy, and in Rome, said that so large a market place and so full of people, and so well regulated and arranged, they had never beheld before.

Based on this information we think that the horseshoe, had something to do with Moctezumas death. We based on the timeline above, it is proved that Moctezumas death was homocide.

Name of victim: Aztec (mexconnect.com)



Age at time of death: 1469 age 13 years old



Country of origin: Central Mexico (wikipeda)



Approx size of population: 20,000,000 (wikipedia)



Signifigant Geographical Features: crabs fish and turtles., near water

Languages Spoken: Spoke spanish

Description Of Government:

Describe all Sources Used: Ask.com, Pitures, other blogs, wikipedia.com, Google.com, All About Aztec.com

Who Created Sources: Yolotl Huascar

Dates Of Testimony: 1428

State signifigance of each winess along with specific details of testimony: 1) Aztec 2) Tlacopan 3) Aztcapotzalco

Cause of Death: HOMOCIDE

Explain the cause of death: It is believed that the death of this civilization was homocide, because of the Spaniards when they visited Aztecs.

Description of the Economic System:

Description of religious beliefs: Spanish Culture

List and describe all evidence used: A rag that is dirty, bullets, footprints of a horse

Explain the signifigance of each piece of evidence: two different bullets (which probably means two different guns) of the people that killed him. RAG means couldve been cleaning.

List and describe possible suspects: Spaniards