The Aztecs, one of the most intriguing and sophisticated civilizations to have ever existed, left an indelible mark on Mexico’s cultural and historical landscape. Before their dramatic fall to Spanish ...
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The Aztecs were advanced... then disease arrived
The Aztec Empire was one of the most powerful civilizations in Central America. Its capital city stunned Spanish conquistadors with its size, organization, and engineering. Yet its religious rituals ...
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The Aztec empire's collapse shows why ruling through coercion and force fails
When Aztec emissaries arrived in 1520 to Tzintzuntzan, the capital of the Tarascan Kingdom in what is now the Mexican state of Michoacán, they carried a warning from the Aztec emperor, Cuauhtémoc.
In the 200 years from the early 1300s until the Spanish conquest in the early 1500s, the Aztecs dominated what is now central and northern Mexico. During their peak, the Aztecs were among the world’s ...
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