The Aztec people included different ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those who spoke Nahuatl. Aztec culture was organized into city-states (altepetl), some of which joined to form …

Jul 20, 1998 · The Aztec are a Nahuatl-speaking people who in the 15th and early 16th centuries ruled a large empire in what is now central and southern Mexico. The ninth emperor, Montezuma II, was …

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The Aztec realm was at its core composed of three Nahuatl -speaking city-states in the densely populated Valley of Mexico. Asymmetries of power elevated one of those city states Tenochtitlan …

Thus the transport of bronze into Aztec territory during the Imperial Period must have been done outside of official channels, through the black market» Boone 1989.

Feb 26, 2014 · 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 …

Oct 27, 2009 · Invaders led by the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés overthrew the Aztec Empire by force and captured Tenochtitlan in 1521, bringing an end to Mesoamerica’s last great native civilization.

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.

Michael Smith, « Social Stratification in the Aztec Empire: A View from the Provinces », American Anthropologist, vol. 88, 1986, p. 74 (DOI 10.1525/aa.1986.88.1.02a00050, S2CID 144891771).

The term Aztec usually refers to the Mexica, the Nahuatl-speaking people who founded Tenochtitlan in 1325 CE and eventually dominated central Mexico. The Mexica formed the core of what historians …