Aztecs build their capital city at Tenochtitlan (“place of the prickly pear cactus”). Situated on an island in Lake Texcoco, Tenochtitlan served as the capital city of the Aztec Empire in the 14th and 15th centuries. Today, the city’s ruins lay in Central Mexico City.
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Aztecs build their capital city at Tenochtitlan (“place of the prickly pear cactus”). Situated on an island in Lake Texcoco, Tenochtitlan served as the capital city of the Aztec Empire in the 14th and 15th centuries. Today, the city’s ruins lay in Central Mexico City.
Aztecs build their capital city at Tenochtitlan (“place of the prickly pear cactus”). Situated on an island in Lake Texcoco, Tenochtitlan served as the capital city of the Aztec Empire in the 14th and 15th centuries. Today, the city’s ruins lay in Central Mexico City.