Aztec alliance with Culhuacan forges Mexica legitimacy

1327

The young Mexica city-state sought prestige by allying with the ancient Toltec-descended rulers of Culhuacan on the southern lakeshore. The alliance ended badly - the Mexica sacrificed a Culhua princess, outraging their would-be patrons - but it established the genealogical claim to Toltec heritage that would underpin Aztec imperial ideology for the next two centuries.