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  2. Aztecs - Wikipedia

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    The Aztecs (/ ˈ æ z t ɛ k s / AZ-teks) were a Mesoamerican culture 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.

  3. Tōnatiuh - Wikipedia

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    Tōnatiuh. In Mesoamerican culture, Tonatiuh ( Nahuatl: Tōnatiuh [toːˈnatiʍ] "Movement of the Sun") is an Aztec sun deity of the daytime sky who rules the cardinal direction of east. [1] According to Aztec Mythology, Tonatiuh was known as "The Fifth Sun" and was given a calendar name of naui olin, which means "4 Movement". [2]

  4. Aztec Empire - Wikipedia

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    e. The Aztec Empire or the Triple Alliance ( Classical Nahuatl: Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, [ˈjéːʃkaːn̥ t͡ɬaʔtoːˈlóːjaːn̥]) was an alliance of three Nahua city-states: Mexico-Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan. These three city-states ruled that area in and around the Valley of Mexico from 1428 until the combined forces of the ...

  5. History of the Aztecs - Wikipedia

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    History of the Aztecs. The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. They called themselves Mēxihcah (pronounced [meˈʃikaʔ]). The capital of the Aztec Empire was Tenochtitlan. During the empire, the city was built on a raised island in Lake Texcoco.

  6. Aztec codex - Wikipedia

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    Codex Azcatitlan, a pictorial history of the Aztec empire, including images of the conquest. Codex Aubin is a pictorial history or annal of the Aztecs from their departure from Aztlán, through the Spanish conquest, to the early Spanish colonial period, ending in 1608. Consisting of 81 leaves, it is two independent manuscripts, now bound together.

  7. Nezahualcoyotl (tlatoani) - Wikipedia

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    The Nahuatl name Nezahualcoyotl is commonly translated as “hungry coyote” or “fasting coyote.”. However, more accurately, it means "coyote with a fasting collar," from nezahualli, a collar made out of bands of paper twisted together. It was worn by those fasting to show others that they shouldn't be offered food.

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