This time their leaders were well represented at ... and you can't protect your merchants. The empire becomes too expensive. And the Aztec couldn't manage it." Ten years before the Spaniards ...

Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec Empire, was founded in 1325. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images: Public domain and Txllxt TxllxT via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 As early as ...