Aztec capital. According to legend, the Aztec people left their home city of Aztlan nearly 1,000 ... of these two cities made the site of Tenochtitlan-Tlatelolco the economic and political center ...

has re-created the capital of the Aztec, or Mexica, empire with so much detail that it looks like a living metropolis. “What did the ancient, enormous city built atop a lake look like?" ...

On March 14, 1519, Hernán Cortés and his troops arrived in the majestic city of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire whose superior architecture and urban planning made the Spaniards ...

MEXICO CITY — There are two ways of remembering the Spanish siege of Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital now known ... “The fall of Tenochtitlan opened the modern history of the West,” said ...

Built in the 16th century by the Spanish on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the old Aztec capital, Mexico City is now one of the world's largest and most densely populated cities. It has five Aztec temples ...

National Museum of Art, Mexico City. Following the fall of Tenochtitlan, an Aztec poet composed a searing account of the capture of the capital city. Written in the Nahuatl language, using the ...

Mexico City commemorated the 500th anniversary of the fall of the Aztec capital as President Andrés ... there is no monument. Tenochtitlan also marked some terrible defeats for the Spaniards.

To the Aztec, 1519 was a year that began with their empire as the uncontested power in the region. Its capital city, Tenochtitlan, ruled 400 to 500 small states with a total population of five to ...

A team of specialists have recreated in stagging detail the Aztec capital city, Tenochtitlan, which once stood as the center of the expanding Aztec Empire until the Spanish invaded in the 16 th ...

As we mentioned, the capital city of Tenochtitlan -- the ruins of which lie beneath modern Mexico City, save for prominent pyramids and temples like the skull-composed Aztec Tower in Mexico City ...

MUNDY: I wrote a book called "The Death Of Aztec Tenochtitlan, The Life Of Mexico City," and the title's a ... decides that he's going to rebuild the capital right there in Tenochtitlan, and ...