Government System

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everyone remembers our studies of the egyptian culture. In that time, the

pharoah (ruler) ruled the entire kingdom, and his word was law. the aztec

empire was the exact same thing! The aztec empire was a monarchy, ruled by

an emperor called huey tlatoani. as we already know, the aztec empire was

first divided into three city states, tenotitchlan, texcoco, and tlacopan. the emperor of each city-state, called a tlatoani, had unlimited control of their

city-state, and their word was law (unless the huey tlatoani overruled

them). there was one exception: the emperor of tenotitchlan was declared

huey tlatoani, and was claimed to be a descendant of the gods. He acted as

the head of the government, and

was in charge of the aztec

military, trade, etc.  the word of

the emperor was the rule, and he

could not be overruled by anyone.