Moctezuma II

…The ruler of the Aztec Empire, Moctezuma II, who is sometimes called Montezuma in older sources because Spanish speakers found the Nahuatl harder to transliterate than the Nahuatl speakers found it to speak,…

…The Mexican ruler Moctezuma II made the decision, fateful in retrospect though the reasoning behind it is genuinely contested, to allow Cortes and his force into the city rather than engaging them on the causeways where the tactical…