- Aztecs - Wikipedia
Aztec culture and history are primarily known through archaeological evidence found in excavations such as that of the renowned Templo Mayor in Mexico City; from Indigenous writings; from eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors such as Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo; and especially from 16th- and 17th-century descriptions of Aztec cult
- Aztec | Calendar, Empire, Gods, History, Facts, Location, Culture . . .
Aztec, Nahuatl-speaking people who in the 15th and early 16th centuries ruled a large empire in what is now central and southern Mexico The name Aztec is derived from Aztlán (variously translated as “White Land,” “Land of White Herons,” or “Place of Herons”), an allusion to their origins, probably in northwestern Mexico
- Aztec Civilization - World History Encyclopedia
Aztec warriors were able to dominate their neighbouring states and permit rulers such as Montezuma to impose Aztec ideals and religion across Mexico Highly accomplished in agriculture and trade, the last of the great Mesoamerican civilizations was also noted for its art and architecture
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- Aztecs: Empire, Culture Facts | HISTORY
The Aztecs ruled much of Mexico from the 13th century until their conquest by Hernán Cortés in 1521
- History of the Aztecs - Wikipedia
The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries They called themselves Mēxihcah (pronounced [meˈʃikaʔ]) The capital of the Aztec Empire was Tenochtitlan During the empire, the city was built on a raised island in Lake Texcoco
- Aztec Empire - Wikipedia
The Aztec Empire, also known as the Triple Alliance (Classical Nahuatl: Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, [ˈjéːʃkaːn̥ t͡ɬaʔtoːˈlóːjaːn̥]) or the Tenochca Empire, [5][6] was an alliance of three Nahua city-states: Mexico-Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan
- Aztec Civilization - National Geographic Society
In just a century, the Aztec built an empire in the area now called central Mexico The arrival of the Spanish conquistadors brought it to a sudden end
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