Right. The Mexica or Aztecs named their city Mexico-Tenochtitlan, hence the name.
The Spanish, led by Hernándo Cortés, conquered the Aztec people in Mexico.
The Aztecs original name is "Mexica", europeans called them Aztecs because of Aztlan, the area basicaly western u.s.(California) It's not the proper name to call ... Mexico
Aztecs is to Mexico as Incas is to Peru
No. Only the Aztecs were from Mexico, the Inca were from Peru.
The name Aztec was given to them by historians but the original name they went by was Mexicas. Which is the reason why many people believe the indigenous people called there country Mexico when Spaniards left in 1821.
Originally, it was the name given to their land by the Aztec civilization, who knew themselves as the Mexica people.When Mexico attained its independence from Spain in 1821, the colonists decided to rename their new country (formerly known as Viceroyalty of the New Spain) to its previous form: Mexico.
The aztecs live on the lake Texcoco in Mexico
The Aztecs were in central Mexico and the Inca were in Peru.
The Aztecs.
Mexico got its name from the Mexica people (wrongly named as Aztecs by contemporary archeologists). It comes from their capital city name: Mexico-Tenochtitlan. It means "place of cactus in the middle of the Moon Lake".
the Aztecs never live in gulf of Mexico, the ancient are olmecas and tolecas, the Aztecs live in center of now is Mexico city