people were conquered (see attestations from Sahagún)
Auh injc macujlli, muchiuh tlatoanj tetzcuco, iehoatl in neçaoalpilli auh in tlatocat vmpoalxiujtl vn matlactli ioã exiujtl in jpan muchiuh iauiutl in noujian ic tepeoaloia = And the fifth who became ruler of Texcoco was Neçaualpilli, and he ruled for fifty-three-years. In his time war was made in all parts through which people were conquered. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Source: Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 9.]
mochiuh in yavyutl, y nouian ic tepeualoya = wars were made; people were conquered everywhere
[Source: Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 189.]