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4 days ago · Tenochtitlan, the ‘Great City of Mexico’ as the Spaniards referred to it, was the supreme settlement of a political and economic empire made up of more than 400 cities and towns spread through central Mexico Mesoamerica and extending into several distant southern and eastern areas.
2 days ago · Mexico - Aztecs, Tenochtitlan, Mesoamerica: The word Azteca is derived from Aztlán (variously translated as “White Land,” “Land of White Herons,” or “Place of Herons”), where, according to Aztec tradition, their people originated, somewhere in the northwestern region of Mexico.
3 days ago · They called their new home Tenochtitlan - we know it as Mexico City. Tenochtitlan was surrounded by water on all sides, but was also accessible via big roads, called causeways, and long canals along which canoes passed all day long.
4 days ago · Templo Mayor served as the spiritual heart of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. This grand temple, dedicated to the gods Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc, stood as a symbol of Aztec power and religious devotion.
3 days ago · Pic 20: Digital reconstruction of Tenochtitlan and its environs (Click on image to enlarge) The Spaniards reached the Iztapalapa road that led to Tenochtitlán on the morning of November 8th 1519. Cortés was leading the group with some of his captains on horses and Malintzin at his side.
3 days ago · t. e. The Inca Empire, [a] officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, lit. "land of four parts" [5]), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. [6] The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco.
2 days ago · Illustration. This map illustrates the rise and extent of the Olmec civilization, which flourished from around 1200 to 400 BCE (the earliest Olmec finds near the San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán sites, date back to c.1600) in the present-day Gulf Coast in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco. It is considered the "mother culture " of Mesoamerica.
3 days ago · In the video historian Dana Leibsohn analyzes two paintings from 16th-century Spanish America: a map from the Codex Mendoza (circa 1543) that represents the founding of Tenochtitlan, the large imperial capital of the Aztecs, and a painting entitled “The Mulatto Gentlemen of Esmeraldas” by Andrés Sánchez Gallque (1599).
2 days ago · Mexico is a country of southern North America and the third largest country in Latin America. It is one of the chief economic and political forces in Latin America, with a dynamic industrial base, vast mineral resources, a wide-ranging service sector, and the world’s largest population of Spanish speakers.
2 days ago · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: Sep 29, 2024 • Article History. The Spanish thrust toward Peru through Panama was diverted for some years by the attractions of nearby Nicaragua.
