How did the Spanish treat the Aztecs? How did conquistadors get land in New Spain? How did the Aztecs maintain power in their empire? How did the Olmecs get to America? How did the Spanish convert the Aztecs to Catholicism? How has Aztec culture survived in Mexico?
How did the Inca unify their empire? How did the Aztecs benefit from war? How did the Incas rule their land? How is the Aztec calendar different from ours? How was the Chavin culture like the Olmec culture? How did the Olmec influence the Zapotec?
When did the Aztec empire begin and end? The Aztecs founded their city of Tenochtitlán (present-day Mexico City) on an island in Lake Texcoco in 1325 C.E. Other city-states remained uneasy with their presence, and fighting continued. Finally, in 1430, the Aztecs formed an alliance...
How the Aztec Empire Was Forged Through a Triple Alliance Three city-states joined in a fragile, but strategic alliance to wield tremendous power as the Aztec Empire. Read more Did the Ancient Aztecs Really Perform Human Sacrifice? In addition to slicing out the hearts of victims and spilling ...
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Exocannibalism can also maintain similar mystical and religious qualities as endocannibalism. Among the Aztecs, the practice of sacrificing captured soldiers and eating their flesh was a process of communing with the gods. It actually proved beneficial to consumer and consumed alike. Under Aztec cosmol...
Thecolony of New Spainrapidly outgrew the initial borders of the Aztec Empire, encompassing all of present-day Mexico, as well as Central America (as far south as Costa Rica), and much of the present-day southwestern United States, including all or parts of Arizona, California, Colorado, Ne...
How did the Spanish affect the Aztec and Incan civilizations? How did the Zapotec explore their environment? How did the Anasazi get their food? How did the Incas rise to power? How were the agricultural systems of the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans uinique?
How did the Aztecs use astronomy? How did the Incas impact Europeans? How did the Incas rise to power? How did pre-Inca civilizations adapt to their environment? How were fields prepared for growing the crops in the Aztec civilization?