Noun

Aztec (plural Aztecs or Aztec)

  1. A Mexica.
    • 1994: Diego Durán, Doris Heyden (translator), The History of the Indies of New Spain
      The lords of Tlatelolco were greatly angered over this and said, one to another, "These Aztecs believe that we are of an alien lineage. Do they not know that we are Aztecs like them[?]
      (= los señores de Tlatelulco, recibieron mucho enojo y pesadumbre, y dixeron entre sí mesmos: estos mexicanos imaginan que nosotros somos de diferente generacion quellos; no saben que somo mexicanos) [1867 edition]
  2. A Nahua.
    • 1989: Elizabeth Hill Boone, Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural: The Image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe
      Although united culturally, the Aztecs thought of themselves in terms of their particular tribal affiliations: as Mexica, Tetzcoca, Culhua, Tepaneca, etc.
  3. The Nahuatl language.

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Tue Aug 31 00:52:10 2010

The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the late post-classic period in Mesoamerican chronology.

Aztec (Aztecatl) is the Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan", a mythological place for the Nahuatl-speaking culture of the time, and later adopted as the word to define the Mexica people. Often the term "Aztec" refers exclusively to the Mexica people of Tenochtitlan (now the location of Mexico City), situated on an island in Lake Texcoco, who referred to themselves as Mexica Tenochca or Colhua-Mexica. Sometimes the term also includes the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan's two principal allied city-states, the Acolhuas of Texcoco and the Tepanecs of Tlacopan, who together with the Mexica formed the Aztec Triple Alliance which has also become known as the "Aztec Empire".

In other contexts, Aztec may refer to all the various city states and their peoples, who shared large parts of their ethnic history as well as many important cultural traits with the Mexica, Acolhua and Tepanecs, and who like them, also spoke the Nahuatl language. In this meaning it is possible to talk about an Aztec civilization including all the particular cultural patterns common for the Nahuatl speaking peoples of the late postclassic period in Mesoamerica.

From the 13th century Valley of Mexico was the core of Aztec civilization: here the capital of the Aztec Triple Alliance, the city of Tenochtitlan, was built upon raised islets in Lake Texcoco. The Triple Alliance formed its tributary empire expanding its political hegemony far beyond the Valley of Mexico, conquering other city states throughout Mesoamerica. At its pinnacle Aztec culture had rich and complex mythological and religious traditions, as well as reaching remarkable architectural and artistic accomplishments.

In 1521, in what is probably the most widely known episode in the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Hernán Cortés, along with a large number of Nahuatl speaking indigenous allies, conquered Tenochtitlan and defeated the Aztec Triple Alliance under the leadership of Hueyi Tlatoani Moctezuma II; In the series of events often referred to as "The Fall of the Aztec Empire". Subsequently the Spanish founded the new settlement of Mexico City on the site of the ruined Aztec capital.

Aztec culture and history is primarily known through archaeological evidence found in excavations such as that of the renowned Templo Mayor in Mexico City and many others, from indigenous bark paper codices, from eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors such as Hernán Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo, and especially from 16th and 17th century descriptions of Aztec culture and history written by Spanish clergymen and literate Aztecs in the Spanish or Nahuatl language, such as the famous Florentine Codex compiled by the Franciscan monk Bernardino de Sahagún with the help of indigenous Aztec informants.

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How and from where did Aztec kings get their power?
Q. i have to do an oral presentation for my class about Aztec Politics and there's nothing in my book about it. i also have to bring something in like a pic or something they can look at...if u got any ideas do tell. please be specific and thanks in advance for the help.
Asked by blah925 - Wed May 7 19:14:47 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Aztec society was centered around elaborate religious traditions. (this included their millitary exercises) the king was always authoritarian, and had ultimate power over the people. He acomplished this through religious control. You should get a book from the public library... I am sure their is one with illistrations.
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Which led to the decline of the Aztec empire?
Q. A. The resentment of South Americans toward Aztec rule B. A trade deficit with Portugal C. Distrust of the Aztec by the English colonists D. Widespread inflation and please don't say, None of the above because it has to be one of them.
Asked by Callie Morgan - Tue Oct 27 21:39:55 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. It's more than obvious that it's NONE of the above, like a simple and fast research to a good encyclopedia would show if you bothered to take a look. The Aztec Empire ended because the spanish invaded and destroyed it, and the diseases they brought helped in killing most of the population soon after.
Answered by Heteronimo - Wed Oct 28 17:59:41 2009

Hi there was a famous Aztec warrior & he fought against the Spaniards invaders. What is the Aztec name?
Q. I think the Aztec warrior he worn gold armor. I think his name is "Moltemo"?
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A. Cuauhtemoc (1495?-1525), last ruler of the Aztec Empire of Mexico, nephew of Emperor Montezuma II. Cuauhtemoc led the opposition to Montezuma s policy of appeasing the Spanish invaders. The Aztecs organized the attack, known as la noche triste ( sad night ), that drove the Spanish commander Hernan Cortes from the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on June 30, 1520. After the death of Montezuma and his successor, Cuauhtemoc was chosen emperor of the Aztec and succeeded in defending the capital throughout the spring and summer of 1521. When finally captured by the Spanish, he refused to reveal the location of the Aztec gold treasury. Taken hostage by Cortes and his party on their march through Honduras, the emperor was tortured and killed by the… [cont.]
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