Tenochtitlan
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Tenochtitlan, also known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan, was a large Mexican altepetl in what is now the historic center of Mexico City. The exact date of the founding of the city is unclear, but the date 13
Aerial view of the city recreated by the Portrait of Tenochtitlan project
Ruins of the Templo Mayor, main temple of the Mexica people
The western side of the shallow Lake Texcoco. Tenochtitlan is the southern part of the main island. The northern part is Tlatelolco.
The Tlatelolco Marketplace as depicted at The Field Museum in Chicago.
Aztec Empire
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The Aztec Empire, also known as the Triple Alliance or historiographically as the Tenochca Empire but most accurately known as the Mexica, was an alliance of three Nahua city-states: Mexico-Tenochtitl
Tenochtitlan
…anniversary of the city. The city was built on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico. The city was the capital of the expanding Aztec Empire in the 15th century until it was captured by the Tlaxcaltec and the Spanish in 1521. At its peak, it was the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas…
First page of the Codex Boturini, showing the migration of the Mexica.
Jaguar warriors in a flower war from the Codex Zouche-Nuttall
Codex Azcatitlan depicting the Spanish army, with Cortés and Malinche in front
Cristóbal de Olid led Spanish soldiers with Tlaxcalan allies in the conquests of Jalisco and Colima of West Mexico.