The Aztecs were the last of many complex civilizations that rose and fell in Mesoamerica before Europeans arrived there in the fifteenth century. The early recorded history of the Aztecs is a mixture of real events and mythological accounts, making it...

Nahuatl language Aztec calendar Aztec religion Aztec mythology Human sacrifice in Aztec...

In 58 B.C., the Roman Gaius Julius Caesar published The Gallic War, thereby establishing a classical paradigm, if not a tradition, in Western literature. Caesar's tripartite geographical division of northern Europe, "The whole of Gaul is divided into three parts...," canonized an artistic and...

In less than two years, Hernando Cortes defeated the mighty Aztec empire Who is this strange-looking bearded creature? That's what the Aztec Indians wondered when they first saw Hernando Cortes (kawr-TEHZ). Cortes landed in Mexico in 1519, with his army of...

Archaeologists diving into a lake in the crater of a snowcapped volcano found wooden scepters shaped like lightning bolts that match 500-year-old descriptions by Spanish priests and conquerors writing about offerings to the Aztec rain god.The lightning bolts _ along with cones of copal incense...

The Cincinnati Bearcats more than lived up to their first national ranking in 31 years.Ben Mauk threw four touchdown passes in the second quarter and the No. 24 Bearcats scored on six of their first seven possessions to rout San Diego State 52-17 on Saturday...

Deals with the conquest of Mexico

This essay shows the importance of the Aztec Indians.

Imperialistic structures of the Aztecs and Incas with emphasis on the ways in which religion affected the structures.