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This is a list of Mesoamerican rulers of the altepetl of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City) from its foundation in 1325 until the end of the line of indigenous rulers. From c. 1375 onwards, the rulers of Tenochtitlan were monarchs and used the title tlatoani.
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]
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.
The Aztecs were conquered by Spain in 1521 after a long siege of the capital, Tenochtitlan, where much of the population died from hunger and smallpox. Cortés, with 508 Spaniards, did not fight alone but with as many as 150,000 or 200,000 allies from Tlaxcala, and eventually other Aztec tributary states. It was not difficult for Cortés to ...
In the Aztec campaign of the PC game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, the player plays as Cuauhtémoc, despite the name Montezuma for the campaign itself, and Cuauhtémoc narrates the openings and closings to each scenario. In the next installment to the series, Age of Empires 3: The War Chiefs, Cuauhtémoc is the leader of Aztecs.
King of Tiliuhcan: Quatlecoatl: Matlalxoch: Tlatolqaca: Matlalxochtzin: Quaquapitzahuac Tlatoani of Tlatelolco?-1372–1407: Ayauhcihuatl: Huitzilihuitl Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan 1379–1396–1417: Miahuaxihuitl: Cacamacihuatl: Itzcoatl Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan?-1427–1440: Huacaltzintli: Matlalatzin: Chimalpopoca Tlatoani of Tenochtitlan 1397 ...
The No. 7 San Diego State Aztecs have “The Map” of the United States all to themselves. The solar system, too, it seems. SDSU (18-0, 7-0 Mountain West) is the nation’s only undefeated team ...
The Aztecs responded with intense violence, which only fueled more violence in response. [4] At the time of Spanish invasion in 1519, the Aztec Empire alone consisted of approximately 450 altepeme. The Spanish recognized and exploited the preexisting political divisions among the various altepeme and the Aztecs, inciting dissident city-states ...