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 Aztec Empire (c. 1345-1521) covered at its greatest extent most of northern Mesoamerica. Aztec warriors were able to dominate their neighbouring states and permit rulers such as Montezuma to impose...
The Aztecs ruled much of Mexico from the 13th century until their conquest by Hernán Cortés in 1521.
The Aztecs embarked on a long and arduous journey, guided by their patron deity Huitzilopochtli, before finally settling in the marshy islands of Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico. It was here, in 1325 CE, that the Aztecs founded their capital city of Tenochtitlan, a remarkable feat of urban planning and engineering.
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 ...