Aztecs

1. A Native American people who ruled Mexico and neighboring areas before the Spaniards conquered the region in the sixteenth century. Starting in the twelfth century, they built up an advanced civilization and empire. (See Hernando Cortés and Montezuma.)

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Why focus on the Aztecs out of the numerous civilizations that existed in the territory that now constitutes Mexico?

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Woolery added another RBI later, legging out a triple after a diving attempt by the Aztecs’ right fielder missed and the ball skipped past, allowing Clements to score.

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Chocolate itself first began as Xocolatl, or “bitter water,” a spiced drink made from ground cacao beans, chiles and spices that originated with the Aztecs and Mayans.

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She worked her way up from her college career at Ohio Wesleyan, to becoming a head coach at San Diego State and Ohio State and back to the Aztecs again.

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The Aztecs said they came from a land north of Mexico called Aztlán.

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