Susan Kellogg's history of the Aztecs offers a concise yet comprehensive assessment of Aztec history and civilization, emphasizing how material life and the economy functioned in relation to politics, ...

Some will shock you, while others will delight you. The Aztec Empire was full of interesting daily tidbits that we never learned about in school.

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 ...

Spanish forces and their Indigenous allies captured Tenochtitlán in 1521, bringing the Aztec Empire’s reign to a close after less than a century. The White House, whose cornerstone was laid in 1792, ...

Speaking of politics, the political history of the Aztec Empire is riveting and thoroughly, surprisingly, modern: The power struggles, the built economies and trade goods, the family and social ...

Aztec society, whose powerful empire stretched over what is now southern ... entitled the General History of the Things of New Spain. The lavishly illustrated manuscript, whose three volumes ...

The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan ... has now been translated into English and offers an alternate history in which the Incas and Aztecs conquered Europe. It’s fiction, of course ...

The pyramid newly discovered last month as part of an investigation begun in August, could have been built in 1100 or 1200, indicating the Aztecs began to develop their civilization in the ...

Virtually all the accounts of the Aztec Empire were written by the Spaniards ... learning their language and transmitting their culture and their history. So although he's Spanish, we can probably ...