- As we mentioned earlier the importance of childbirth, meant the Aztecs equated the suffering of giving birth with a warrior’s effort to capture an enemy.
- It was a gifted and wise nation, rich in complex traditions and beliefs. Now, you will become an Aztec and do everything you can to make history remember your people.
- 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 Texcoco.
- Aztecs are the people that design, build, optimize, maintain, and evolve the infrastructure that powers the digital age.
- They took this as a sign from their god that they should settle there. The Aztecs called the place Tenochtitlan, which means the place of the cactus.
- The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. They called themselves Mexica.
- The Aztecs were a tribal group of people who lived in the central area of Mexico from the 14th century to the 16th century (around 1345 AD to 1521 AD).
- At the height of its power, the Aztec Empire was organized and strong, but ruled with fear. In 1519, a clash of cultures was to take place, unlike anything before it.
- In Nahuatl, the language spoken by the Aztecs, the word Aztecah means “people from Aztlan” and that is from where the Aztecs get their popular name.
- The Aztecs, flourishing in present-day Mexico, established a militaristic society with a powerful central government and an emphasis on tribute collection.