Montezuma I

Born c. 1397 (some sources say 1390)
Tenochtitlán, Valley of Mexico
Died 1469
Tenochtitlán

Aztec head of state

"Montezuma conferred with Nezahualcoyotl [Montezuma's cousin, the king of Texcoco] as to the best means of preventing the return of such a calamity, and they agreed to build immense dams … the remains of which … are still a wonder to engineers."

Stanley L. Klos, editor, Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography.

Montezuma I, or Montezuma Ilhuicamina (also spelled Moctezuma or Motecuhzoma; pronounced mohk-the-ZOO-mah ill-whee-cah-MEE-nah), ruled the Aztecs from 1440 to 1469. His full name means "angry archer who shoots an arrow in the sky." Montezuma lived and ruled in the large and heavily populated Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán (pronounced tay-notch-teet-LAHN), which was located on an...

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