In 1428 a new power emerged, formed by the cities of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan. It was called the Triple Alliance. The Triple Alliance (popularly known as the Aztec) conquered lands so ...

Meet the ancient Mexican metropolis. Situated on Lake Texcoco we find the incredible capital city of the Aztec empire; Tenochtitlan. When Spanish conquistadors under the command of Hernan Cortes ...

Tenochtitlán was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands of ...

king of the Aztec empire’s No. 2 city of Texcoco. Experts say the discovery proves that some Aztecs did resist the conquistadors, led by explorer Hernan Cortes, before the Spaniards attacked the ...

Cortés then took the canons, masts and rigging from the boats they had scuttled in the Gulf, and created new ships to launch against Tenochtitlan from Texcoco, an Aztec city they had allied with. This ...

But the dawn of the Aztec civilization, marked by the founding of the city of Tenochtitlán at Lake Texcoco—now Mexico City—didn’t arrive until 1325, 229 years after teaching began at Oxford.

In Mexico City, a 700-year-old Aztec farming technique is giving a ... legend has it that they were greeted by an unusual sight on Lake Texcoco. An eagle with a snake in its beak was sitting ...

a 15th-century ruler of Texcoco, another nearby Aztec metropolis. You can also admire the cool chinampas, floating beds where flowers and produce were grown, smaller settlements like Tlacopan and ...