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noun - a member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519
AZTECS - The Aztecs () were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec peoples included ...
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| The creation myth of these people involves Tezcatlipoca & Quetzalcoatl tearing Coatlicue apart |
| The new fire ceremony was performed every 52 years by this Mexican civilization |
| Between about 1325 & 1500 this group expanded from an island or two to control southern Mexico |
| Von Humboldt popularized this group name; they called themselves Tenochca, Mexica & Colhua Mexica |
| The people of this empire called themselves the Mexica or Tenochca |
| Tlazolteotl was the lust goddess of these people; her name is Nahuatl for "lady of dirt" |
| In the 13th century, this Indian group settled in the valley of Mexico |
| It was the last Indian empire in Mexico & Central America |
| Huitzilopochtli was the war & sun god of this civilization |
| In the mythology of these people, Yacatecutli was the god of traveling merchants |
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| The Aztecs () were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec peoples included different ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to the 16th centuries. Aztec culture was organized into city-states (altepetl), some of which joined to form alliances, political confederations, or empires. The Aztec empire was a confederation of three city-states established in 1427, Tenochtitlan, city-state of the Mexica or Tenochca; Texcoco; and Tlacopan, previously part of the Tepanec empire, whose dominant power was Azcapotzalco. Although the term Aztecs is often narrowly restricted to the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, it is also broadly used to refer to Nahua polities or peoples of central Mexico in the prehispanic era, as well as the Spanish colonial era (15211821). The definitions of Aztec and Aztecs have long been the topic of s |