The woman long blamed for her role in the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is getting a modern makeover. The Spanish called her Marina, pre-Hispanic peoples knew her as Malintzin and later she was ...
A network of traveling merchant-spies were essential to the expansion of the Aztec Empire. In ancient Mesoamerica, an elite class of merchants helped build the Aztec Empire. How? By mastering the arts ...
The film discusses the history of the Aztecs, the last great Indian civilization in Mexico, which began around 1168 AD. The Aztecs, originally invaders from the north, developed a complex society ...
When Aztec emissaries arrived in 1520 to Tzintzuntzan, the capital of the Tarascan Kingdom in what is now the Mexican state of Michoacán, they carried a warning from the Aztec emperor, Cuauhtémoc.