Talk:Aztec Triple Alliance

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[edit] Editing Aztec Triple Alliance

Fellow Editors: I have been working on keeping this article focused on the Aztec Triple Alliance and not include scraps of material more appropriate to the Aztec, Tenochtitlan or the Spanish conquest of Mexico articles.

Yes, in the later years particularly, the Aztecs were the Triple Alliance, but this article really should not mirror the Aztec article.

I removed the following sentences for the reasons stated:

• "After establishing power in the Valley of Mexico, the Triple Alliance's control spread through the use of Flowery wars, which captured prisoners for sacrifice." This is unsupported IMHO. It seems more correct to say that their influence spread thru old-fashioned war (period). Certainly the Flower Wars were a feature of Aztec warfare, but not the (primary) method that the Aztecs used to spread their influence.

• "As a founding member of the alliance, Texcoco had a lot of privileges and provided the Aztec with their most cultivated citizens". Also unsupported. Texcoco supplied their most cultivated citizens? Also the phrase "a lot of" is too fuzzy and unencyclopedic.

• "As the Aztec absorbed all Nahua cities, that left only Tlaxcala and Huexotzingo as a source for captives for sacrifice. Cholula was originally under Huexotzingo, but the Aztec absorbed almost all the territory of Huexotzingo, leaving only Talxcala." If the article needs to address the blow-by-blow of the Aztec empire (Triple Alliance) conquest, we should get a regular chronology going with dates and a narrative flow.

Just wanted to explain my thought processes. Madman 03:51, 14 April 2006 (UTC)