Montezuma

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Montezuma Name of two Aztec Emperors. Montezuma (r. 1440–69) increased the Empire by conquest. Montezuma II (r. 1502–20) allowed the Spaniards under Cortés to enter his capital, Tenochtitlán, in 1519, and then became captive.

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