but before the empire's dramatic collapse in the wake of Spanish exploration, the Aztecs were, for 200 years, the regional ...

In another special episode looking back at history, Venetia Rainey talks with the author of ‘Fifth Sun: A New History of the ...

The palace was also used as the home of Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés after the fall of the Aztec empire. Excavators have found evidence of the home Cortés had at the palace site.

the patron of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs were a group of Nahuatl-speaking peoples that dominated large parts of central Mexico from the 14th to the 16th centuries. Their empire was ...