After settling in and being evicted from various different areas, the Aztecs settled in Tizapan at the relative center of present-day Mexico. ... Shortly after, war broke out between the Aztecs and Culhuacan, and the Aztecs were routed. ... On one of these islands the Aztecs founded the sacred city of Tenochtitlan and immediately built an altar to their patron god, Huitzilopochtli, God of War. ... Under the rule of Itzcoatl, and for eighty years afterwards, the Aztecs proceeded to subjugate the remainder of the Valley of Mexico and then further beyond--from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the...

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