Montezuma I Coloring Page

Montezuma I, also written Moctezuma Ilhuicamina, ruled the Aztecs from 1440 to 1469. His name is said to mean something like “angry lord, sky shooter.” He won new lands for the empire and helped make the Aztec Triple Alliance the most powerful in the region.

In his time, Tenochtitlan, the capital on an island in a lake, got a dike to hold back floods and an aqueduct to bring in fresh water. His grandson Montezuma II was the emperor who later met Hernán Cortés.