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Key facts
- 1520
- 220,000 km (85,000 sq mi)
- Capital
- Mexico-Tenochtitlan ( de facto ), 19°26′N 99°8′W / 19.433°N 99.133°W / 19.433; -99.133
- Common languages
- Classical Nahuatl ( lingua franca ) , many others
- Religion
- Aztec religion
- Demonyms
- Aztec, Tenochcan, Culhua-Mexica
- Government
- Hegemonic confederation
- 1427 1440
- Itzcoatl ( Alliance founder )
- 1520 1521
- Cuauhtémoc ( last )
- 1431 1440
- Nezahualcoyotl ( Alliance founder )
- 1516 1520
- Cacamatzin ( last )
- 1400 1430
- Totoquihuaztli I ( Alliance founder )
- 1519 1524
- Tetlepanquetzaltin ( last )
- Historical era
- Pre-Columbian era , Age of Discovery
- Spanish conquest
- 13 August 1521
- Early 16th century
- 6 million
- Currency
- Quachtli commodity money system by cotton cloth quantity and traditionally also cocoa beans
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofMexico Full list of monarchs near bottom of page.
The Aztec Empire, also known as the Triple Alliance (Classical Nahuatl: Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, [ˈjéːʃkaːn̥ t͡ɬaʔtoːˈlóːjaːn̥]) or historiographically as the Tenochca Empire but most accurately known as the Mexica, was an alliance of three Nahua city-states: Mexico-Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan. These three city-states ruled that area in and around the Valley of Mexico from 1428 until the combined forces of the Spanish conquistadores and their native allies who ruled under Hernán Cortés defeated them in 1521. Its people and civil society are historiographically referred to as the Aztecs or the Culhua-Mexica.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aztec Empire” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.