Aztec Empire
It's history explained...
By Desmond Kendl Published on March 13, 2014 at 1:22 PM
The Aztec Empire began in Mexico around 1492. The Aztecs began in Tenochtitlan and this city also becomes the heart of the Aztec empire. the Aztecs spread around Mexico quickly ruling mainly city-states.
The Aztecs did not rule many city-states directly because they would mostly rule from a few popular places. The Aztec empire was always striving to obtain more land among their empire. The more land they had the more money the got, and in order to successfully run the empire they needed money. This empire was not very straight with their citizens, but the citizens would pay taxes and be under the rule of the empire even though the empire was sort of distant from them and left them on their own. Tenochtitlan was the center of all Aztec trade and of all the culture. This city was there most populated and largest city. In Tenochtitlan there was a 200 foot tall pyramid called the Pyramid of the Sun. This city held around as many as 125,000 people and had grown enough to become one of the largest cities in the world at that time period. |
Information Retrieved from: Beck, Roger, Linda Black, Larry Krieger, Phillip Naylor, and Dahia Ibo Shabaka. World History: Patterns of Interaction. 1st ed. Evanston, Boston, Dallas: McDougal Littell, 2003. Print.