The Aztecs: A Great Empire

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The Aztecs: A Great Empire.

Abstract
Unwanted change can be the threshold to a new dimension of growth and to a great empire. The Aztecs were fearless warriors and pragmatic builders that created a great empire during the 15th century that was surpassed in size in the Americas only by that of the Inca in Peru.
The Aztecs: A Great Empire.
Addy I. Chretien
Wayland Baptist University


The Aztecs were the native America people who dominated northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest led by Hernan Cortes in the early 16th century. According to their own legends, they originated from a place called Aztlan, somewhere in north or northwest Mexico. At that time the Aztecs (who referred to themselves as the Mexica or Tenochca) were a small,nomadic, Nahuatl-speaking aggregation of tribal peoples living on the margins of civilized Mesoamerica. Sometime in the 12th century they embarked on a period of Continually dislodged by the small city by the small city-states that fought one another in shifting alliances.
The Aztecs finally found refuge on small islands in Lake Texcoco where, in 1325, they founded the town of TENOCHTITLAN (Modern-day Mexico City).
The Term Aztec, originally associated with the migrant Mexica, is today a collective term, applied to all the peoples linked by trade, custom, religion, and language to these founders.
The Aztecs traveled for years, without establishing their own spot, until 1344, according to their legend, they found the islands and they thought they should establish their city there. Once the Aztecs established their city, they were under the ruling of Azcapotzalco, who was like their idol soldier. Towards 1430, the Aztecs, their culture was very advance in their region, the Valley and they turned out to be a very powerful military, rebelling against their idol soldier Azcapotzalco and they became one of the most powerful military of the region. They continued like this for 70 ye...