Late Middle Ages · North America · Disaster
1450
Aztec Great Famine
1450
Four years of crop failure in the Valley of Mexico killed thousands and drove peasants to sell themselves into slavery for maize. Moctezuma I opened the imperial granaries but the emergency outlasted the reserves. The famine deepened Mexica fatalism about cosmic cycles of catastrophe and renewal that shaped their religious reasoning.
In context
Also in 1450 (4 other events on record)
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Before and after in North America
Before and after in Disaster
- Before: 1422: Hagia Sophia Damaged in Earthquake
- After: 1465: Kaifeng Flood
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.