98 TABLE OF EMIGRATION OTHEE TRIBES IN THE EMPIRE. 







Tel- 



1US. 





53 

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a 





Mexicans or Aztecs. 



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S IS 



dex 

 rim 



o 



S 



<A) 



9 



1 













■1 





a 

 «j 





§ 



O 



Foundation of Mexico or Te- 

















1324 







1325 



1990 





iQ9c; 

 xo4o 



1o4d 



Acamapichtli, elected King. 



1375 



1399 



1384 



1361 



1141 



1384. 

 loot 



J.OU1 



1 Q^O 





1396 



1406 



1424 



1403 



1353 





1402 



1389 





1417 



1414 



1427 



1414 



1357 





1414 



1409 





1427 



1426 



1437 



1427 



1427 





1427 



1423 





1440 



1440 



1449 



1440 



1440 







1436 





1469 



1469 



1481 



1468 



1469 







1464 





1482 



1483 



1487 



1481 



1483 







1477 





1486 



1486 



1492 



1486 



1486 







1482 





1502 



1502 



1503 



1502 



1503 







1502 



Duration of reigns of Mexi- 



can Kings. 





21 



7 



40 



42 



150 



21 



41 



37 





21 



8 



3 



11 



50 



21 



12 



20 





10 



12 



10 



13 



70 



10 



13 



14 







14 



12 



13 



13 



14 





13 





29 



29 



32 



28 



29 



30 





28 





13 



14 



6 



13 



14 



14 





13 







3 



5 



5 



3 



4 





5 







16 



11 



16 



17 



8 





16 





17 



17 



16 



17 



17 



19 





17 



The writers and documents cited in the preceding columns are esteemed the 

 highest authority upon Mexican history and antiquities. 



This is perhaps the best comparative table of Mexican Chronology, — up to the 

 period of the conquest, — that has ever been compiled ; and the great discrepancy 

 between the dates assigned by various authorities, exhibits the guess work upon 

 which the earlier Mexican history is founded. 



In addition to the tribes or States enumerated in the preceding tables as consti- 

 tuting the nucleus of the Mexican empire under Montezuma, at the period of the 

 Spanish conquest, it must be recollected that there were numerous other Indian 

 States, — such as the Tlascalans, Cholulans, &c, whose origin is more obscure 

 even than that of the Aztecs. Besides these, there were, on the territories now 

 comprehended within the Mexican republic, the Tarascos who inhabited Michoa- 

 can, an independent sovereignty ; — the barbarous Ottomies ; the Olmecs ; the 

 Xicalancas ; the Miztecas, and Zapotecas. The last named are supposed by Baron 

 Humboldt to have been superior, in civilization, to the Mexicans, and probably 

 preceded the Toltecs in the date of their emigration. Their architectural remains 

 are found in Oaxaca. If we consider the comparatively small space in which the 

 original tribes were gathered together in the valley of Mexico, which is not proba- 

 bly over two hundred and fifty miles in circumference, we cannot but be surprised 

 that such remarkable results were achieved from such paltry beginnings and upon 

 so narrow a theatre. The subjugation of so large a territory and such numerous 

 tribes, by the Aztecs and Tezcocans is perhaps quite as wonderful an achievement, 

 as the final subjugation of those victorious nations by the Spaniards. But in all our 

 estimates of Spanish valor and generalship, in the splendid campaigns of Cortez, 

 we should never forget, — as we have remarked in the text, — the material assist- 

 ance he received from his Indian allies — the Tlascalans. 



