The Aztec Empire was one of the most dominant forces the world had ever seen, but it would fall from grace in a span of two ...
It was the third flat Aztec monolith ... the Spaniards after his death," López Luján says, referring to the last emperor who ruled over Mexico on the eve of the Spanish conquest.
A new scientific analysis of a large gold bar found decades ago in downtown Mexico City reveals it was part of the plunder Spanish conquerors ... they fled the Aztec capital after native warriors ...
The Aztec Empire was a fascinating Mesoamerican ... producing a large concentration of literature that survived during and after the Spanish conquest and colonization. It was soon thereafter ...
Between 1345 and 1521 C.E., the Aztec Empire flourished in what is now ... Their power came to an end with the Spanish conquest.
Mexico's national cathedral – the vaulting, austere, ornate church on the Zócalo's north end – was once the site of an ancient Aztec ... 1573 and 1813 after the Spanish conquest of ...
It is one of the best-preserved examples of pre-conquest Aztec-style writing that exists, after Catholic authorities ... as well as reigning Spanish King Philip VI, apologize for atrocities ...