Before their defeat by the Spanish in 1521, the triple alliance ruled Mesoamerica through complex trade networks—and warfare. The Mexica priest Cuauhtlequetzqui points out the place where his people ...

Tenochtitlán was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands of people ...

The Aztecs, who flourished from 1428 to 1521, were ruled by an alliance of three groups: Mexica, Acolhua, and Tepaneca, and Tenochtitlan was the city built by Mexica on Lake Texcoco. Tenochtitlan at ...

Modern-day Mexico was formed in 1521, when a 500-strong group of Spanish conquistadors, led by Hernan Cortes, alongside thousands upon thousands of indigenous Mexicans, seized control of the centre of ...