Explore the history of the Aztecs, their incredible achievements in art, architecture, and warfare, as well as the factors that led to their decline. --- For more videos from Smithsonian Magazine: Di ...
The Aztec Empire was one of the most powerful civilizations in Central America. Its capital city stunned Spanish ...
The Aztecs, one of the most intriguing and sophisticated civilizations to have ever existed, left an indelible mark on Mexico’s cultural and historical landscape. Before their dramatic fall to Spanish ...
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 ...
In the 200 years from the early 1300s until the Spanish conquest in the early 1500s, the Aztecs dominated what is now central and northern Mexico. During their peak, the Aztecs were among the world’s ...