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The Aztecs [a] (/ ˈ æ z t ɛ k s / AZ-teks) were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
Chimalxochitl II (b. before 1299), [1] also known as Chimallaxochitzin, Chimallaxoch, [2] Chimalacaxochitl or Chīmalxōchitl in Classical Nahuatl, [3] was Queen consort of the Cuautitlan Kingdom and Princess of the Aztecs. [2] She was the sole survivor of the Aztec royal family during the Chapultepec War [2] and a defender of her religious ...
There they "encountered the remnants of the Toltec empire (Hicks 2008; Weaver 1972)." [14] According to legend, the Mexica were searching for a sign which one of their main gods, Huitzilopochtli, had given them. They were to find "an eagle with a snake in its beak, perched on a prickly pear cactus," and build their city there. [6]
The Zacatecos (or Zacatecas) are an indigenous group, one of the peoples called Chichimecas by the Aztecs. They lived in most of what is now the state of Zacatecas and the northeastern part of Durango. They have many direct descendants, but most of their culture and traditions have disappeared with time.
The word Aztec in modern usage would not have been used by the people themselves. It has variously been used to refer to the Aztecs or Triple Alliance, the Nahuatl-speaking people of central Mexico prior to the Spanish conquest, or specifically the Mexica ethnicity of the Nahuatl-speaking tribes (from tlaca). [7]
Family tree of Aztec monarchs. 4 languages. ... The following is a family tree of the Mexica Emperors from 1376 to 1525. [1] Tezozomoc Azcapotzalco ruler
Although some members of Habsburg family are still around, their ruling dynasty ended in November of 1918. In 1919, the last emperor, Karl I, went into exile in Switzerland, The World of Habsburg ...
Using this term for the Nahuas has generally fallen out of favor in scholarship, though it is still used for the Aztec Empire. They have also been called Mēxihcatl [meːˈʃiʔkat͡ɬ] (singular), Mēxihcah [meːˈʃiʔkaʔ] (plural) [15] or in Spanish Mexicano(s) [mexiˈkano(s)] "Mexicans", after the Mexica, the Nahua tribe which founded the ...