Listen to a Podcast About The Aztec Empire

Explore the Mexica civilization that built Tenochtitlan — their complex society, astronomical knowledge, ritual practices, and dramatic fall to Spanish conquistadors.

Tenochtitlan, founded in 1325 on an island in Lake Texcoco, had a population of approximately 200,000-300,000 by the early 1500s — larger than any European city except possibly Constantinople and Paris at the time. The Aztec Sun Stone, a 3.6-meter basalt disk weighing 24 tons carved around 1502, encodes the Aztec cosmological calendar and understanding of five world ages, and is now the most recognized symbol of pre-Columbian Mexico. Hernan Cortes arrived with just 600 soldiers in 1519 and conquered the empire by 1521, aided critically by indigenous allies like the Tlaxcalans who opposed Aztec rule, and by smallpox epidemics that killed an estimated 40% of the indigenous population.

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