Dear Friends, For those of you joining us in Mexico (and for those who are interested) there is a GREAT EXHIBITION on at the moment about the AZTECS at the Australian Museum, here in Sydney! The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. They called themselves Mexica. The Republic of Mexico and its capital, Mexico City, derive their names from the word Mexica. The capital of the Aztec empire was Tenochtitlan, built on raised island in Lake Texcoco. Mexico City is built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan. The Spanish colonization of the Americas reached the mainland during the reign of Huey Tlatoani , Moctezuma II (Montezuma II). In 1521 Hernan Cortes and an allied army of American Indians that far outnumbered the defending Aztecs, conquered the Aztecs through germ warfare, siege warfare, psychological warfare, and direct combat. australianmuseum.net.au/landing/aztecs/
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 07:20:18 +0000