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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study authors also noted a shift in obsidian use after the Aztec Triple Alliance of 1430 ... with the other Nahua-speaking city states of Texcoco and Tlacopan. After this point, obsidian ...

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.