Showing results for "Aztecs"

• plural of Aztec.

Aztecs

Cultural  

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.)

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Aztecs

The Teotihuacán is an ancient city, home to massive pyramids, and predates the Aztecs.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

After the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, Mexico’s European overlords used its silver and its agricultural wealth to nourish their global enterprises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Whether you watch with the original Spanish track or the English dub, the dialogue is laced with phrases and words in the Nahuatl language, the native tongue of the Aztecs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

For example, a smallpox epidemic devastated the Aztecs after the failure of the first Spanish attack in 1520 and killed Cuitlahuac, the Aztec emperor who briefly succeeded Montezuma.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond