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the gods told them to stop when they found a eagle on a cactus eating a serpent and they found it there on the island

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The Aztecs were wandering nomads until they saw an eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a cactus. They took this as a sign from their god, Huitzilopochtli, that they should build their capital city, Tenochtitlan, on that spot.

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