How significantly the political affect of the Aztec Empire prolonged is not evidently certain, but there are many indications that its cultural relations ended up really extensive. In his terror Montezuma summoned aged Nezahualpilli of Tezcuco, famous as an astrologer, to interpret the indicator and this King, whose star was in the decline, took probably a grim fulfillment in looking through from the portents the early overthrow of the empire.