they built thier city with tree,wood,and stilts.
Archaeologists found various structures, temples, palaces, and artifacts in Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the Aztec Empire. They also discovered the Templo Mayor, which was a large pyramid dedicated to two Aztec gods, and the main plaza known as the Zocalo. These findings have provided valuable insights into the Aztec civilization and their religious practices.
It was the the economic, cultural and political capital of the Aztec Empire.
Before 1325 AD, the Aztec or Mexica people were a nomadic tribe that wandered throughout the land, looking for a place to settle and build their capital. Their state religion awaited the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy: that the wandering tribes would find the destined site for a great city whose location would be signaled by an eagle eating a snake while perched atop a cactus. The Aztecs saw this vision on what was then a small swampy island in the middle of lake Texcoco, after which they founded their capital Tenochtitlan (today known as Mexico City), on March 13, 1325.
The prophesy and subsequent vision is now immortalized in Mexico's coat of arms and on the Mexican flag.
After a plague of smallpox which decimated the population and a siege brought by Spanish conquistadors and their Tlaxcalan allies, it fell on August 13, 1521 before these hostile forces. This marked the beginning of the Viceroyalty Period (1521 - 1821) when the region encompassing present-day Mexico became an overseas colony of Spain.
Mexico City, capital of the country of Mexico.
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He landed at Mexico.
The Spanish were used to build a new city atop conquered cities and villages in the Americas. This included cities such as Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City), Tollan-Chollollan (now Cholula), Xallapan (now Xalapa), Atotonilco, and many more.
1. It was built on water
2. It had a giant gold temple in the middle
3. Roads connected it to the main land
4. Human Sacrifices were held on the temples
5. They used Chinampas to farm
It was the economic, cultural and political center of the Aztec empire. It was their capital from 1325 - date of its foundation - until 1521, when it fell before Hernan Cortes and his Spanish conquistadores.
Present-day Mexico City, capital of Mexico.
Hernan Cortes arrived on November 8, 1519.
The disease that the spanish brought into the Aztec Civilization was the Small Pox It infected alot of people and killed alot but fortunately some survived
First off it's Tenochtitlan. Secondly, it was in Mexico because of a prophecy. The prophecy was that when they (The Aztecs) found an eagle perched on a cactus with a snake in it's talon that they would settle there.
Present-day Mexico City, capital of Mexico.
Present-day Mexico city is located atop the ruins of ancient Tenochtitlan.
Because Montezuma mistook Cortes for the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl
and Spain was inculed in it to
well they would build their civilization where they saw an eagle on a cactus with a snake in its mouth. 2 priest saw the eagle and they built their civilization and they called it Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico city.
The Aztec , man-made island, capital city, previously located at the center of the lake of Texcoco.
It does no longer exist as it was destroyed when the spanish came, by the Aboriginal allies of the spanish (with a tiny contribution of the spanish themselves) and in its location now lays Mexico city.
It was the Aztec's capital city