The Aztecs[a] (/ ˈæztɛks / AZ-teks) were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language. Aztec culture was organized into city-states (altepetl), some of which joined to form alliances, political confederations, or empires. The Aztec ...
The Aztecs referred to themselves as Culhua-Mexica, to link themselves with Colhuacán, an important urban in the Valley of Mexico. See also pre-Columbian civilizations: Aztec culture to the time of the Spanish conquest.
The Aztecs ruled much of Mexico from the 13th century until their conquest by Hernán Cortés in 1521.
The Aztecs left an enduring legacy in Mexican culture, language, and national identity. Many Nahuatl words, such as chocolate, tomato, and avocado, entered the global lexicon.
The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. They were a civilization with a rich cultural heritage whose capital, Tenochtitlan, rivaled the greatest cities of Europe in size and grandeur. The nucleus of the Aztec Empire was the Valley of Mexico, where the capital of the Aztec Triple Alliance was built upon raised islets in Lake ...
The Aztec Empire (In Search of History, 42:56 min.) Engineering An Empire: The Aztecs (History Channel, 44:26 min.) Blood and Flowers-In search of the Aztecs (BBC Learning, 48:40 min.)
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