The AztecsDealing with Famine

By Jacob Cummins

A war Interrupted When Montezuma I

began ruling he made a campaign against the Chalca who lived Southeast of the Valley of Mexico.

The war was interrupted by a famine in 1446 in which locusts devoured harvests.

Lengthy Famine The famine lasted

many years. A series of frosts cast gloom and produced a wave of panic throughout the valley.