Valley of Mexico
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The Valley of Mexico, sometimes also called the Basin of Mexico, is a large natural basin on the highland plateau of central Mexico. Surrounded by mountains and volcanoes, the valley was the historica
View of the Valley of Mexico from the neighborhood of San Bernabé Ocotepec, 2022
A Columbian mammoth jaw excavated at Tocuila
Modern-day Cuicuilco
Ceramic art recovered from Tlatilco, c. 1300–800 BC
Mexica
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The Mexica are a Nahuatl-speaking people of the Valley of Mexico who were the rulers of the Triple Alliance, more commonly referred to as the Aztec Empire. The Mexica established Tenochtitlan, a settl
Valley of Mexico
…the Spanish during the colonial period. The largest and most dominant city at the time of the Spanish conquest was Tenochtitlan. It was founded by the Mexica (Aztecs) on a small island in the western part of Lake Texcoco in 1325, and was extended with the use of chinampas, human-made extensions of agricultural…
Music and dance during a One Flower ceremony, from the Florentine Codex
Huitzilopochtli, the patron god of the Mexica, as depicted in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis