The Fall of the Aztecs
Royal GreetingMontezumaHuman Sacrifice
Teudile, the steward of the Aztecs, came in person on Easter Sunday, meeting the Spanish on the shore by a little white-walled Totonac town. Montezuma had, Teudile said, heard of the new arrivals; he knew of the Grijalva expedition, and had heard of the battle on the Tabasco river. He had instructed his steward to supply and feed his guests and to offer them gifts of precious stones, and featherware.
Montezuma Sends Gifts
Montezuma sent four sets of "gods' array" as a gift to the Spaniards.

Credit: "General History of the Things of New Spain" (Florentine Codex), Books I-IX and XII, translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. Santa Fe, New Mexico and Salt Lake City: The School of American Research and the University of Utah Press. Used courtesy of the University of Utah Press.
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