"Then you haven’t been looking very hard," the professor chided. "Nezahualpilli’s ollamaliztli match with Montezuma II is infamous. In 1516, this king of Texcoco prophesied that strangers would soon rule the Aztec kingdom. Montezuma refused to believe him, and challenged Nezahualpilli to a ball game—and to predict who would win it. Nezahualpilli boasted that he would win, and wagered his kingdom against Montezuma’s rather pathetic bet of three turkeys. Needless to say, Nezahualpilli did win—although Montezuma beat him in the first two games. Three years later, in 1519, Cortés sacked and plundered Tenochtitlán, and the prophecy was proved correct."