New World codices were written as late as the 16th century ( see Maya codices and Aztec codices ).

Mica was known to ancient Indian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman and Chinese civilizations, as well as the Aztec civilization of the New World.

As well, there was no spread of this doctrine within the New World and the advanced civilizations of the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Mohican, Delaware, Huron and especially the Iroquois.

* The Aztec New Fire ceremony is held for the last time ( according to Bernardino de Sahagún ).

Rourke was replaced on bass by Craig Gannon ( formerly a member of Scottish New Wave band Aztec Camera ), but was reinstated after only a fortnight.

In the New World, Charles oversaw the Spanish colonization of the Americas, including the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and the Inca Empire.

During Charles ' reign, the territories in New Spain were considerably extended by conquistadores like Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro, who caused the Aztec and Inca empires to fall in little more than a decade.

New discoveries have suggested that Teotihuacan was not much different in its interactions with other centers from the later empires, such as the Toltec and Aztec.

* Klein, Cecelia F. " A New Interpretation of the Aztec Statue Called Coatlicue, ' Snakes Her Skirt ,'" Ethnohistory 55 ( 2 ): 229-250.

The Tzitzimimeh were also feared during other ominous periods of the Aztec world, such as during the five unlucky days called Nemontemi which marked an unstable period of the year count, and during the New Fire ceremony marking the beginning of a new calendar round-both were periods associated with the fear of change.

Aztec () is a city in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States.

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* U. S. Highway 550, which runs through nearby Bloomfield, NM and Aztec, NM, connects Farmington with central New Mexico, Interstate 25, and the capital city of Santa Fe

In New Mexico there is also the Aztec Ruins National Monument, Bandelier National Monument, Capulin Volcano National Monument, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, El Malpais National Monument, El Morro National Monument, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, Pecos National Historical Park, Petroglyph National Monument, and the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.

The Historia also described Inca and Aztec customs and history, as well as other information such as winds and tides, lakes, rivers, plants, animals, and mineral resources in the New World.

The " facts " contained in the book were in fact an amalgam of other travel reports, and were especially influenced by accounts of the Aztec and Inca civilization in the New World and by embellished descriptions of Japan.

* Aztec, New Mexico, a city in the United States

Two New World species traditionally regarded as Zoothera ; ( Varied Thrush and Aztec Thrush ) actually belong elsewhere in the thrush family.

The culture and aesthetic of the Lizardmen are heavily inspired by those of the Aztec and Mayan cultures, and the New World continent ( Lustria ) which they inhabit corresponds to Central and South America in the real world.

Mexico and Peru were kingdoms fashioned under the respectively Aztec and Inca laws and borders.

There he saw " the things which have been sent to the king from the golden land "— the Aztec treasure that Hernán Cortés had sent home to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V following the fall of Mexico.

Whorf considered using the money to travel to Mexico to procure Aztec manuscripts for the Watkinson library, but Tozzer suggested he spend the time in Mexico documenting modern Nahuatl dialects.

The outcome of the trip to Mexico was Whorf's sketch of Milpa Alta Nahuatl, published only after his death, and an article on a series of Aztec pictograms found at the Tepozteco monument at Tepoztlán, Morelos in which he noted similarities in form and meaning between Aztec and Maya day signs.

As a result, Chicano identification is aligned with the idea of Aztlán, which extends to the Aztec period of Mexico, celebrating a time preceding land division.

Monument to Aztec Leader Cuitlahuac on Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City

Ancient Mexico can be said to have produced five major civilizations: the Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec.

By 1519, the Aztec capital, Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the site of modern-day Mexico City, was one of the largest cities in the world, with a population of 30, 000 ( estimates range as high as 60, 000 ).

When conquistadores arrived in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan ( now Mexico City ), they found that the people's diet consisted largely of corn-based dishes with chiles and herbs, usually complemented with beans and tomatoes or nopales.

* 1519 – Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.

The first contact between indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, when Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to escape from the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.

In the codex's description of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortés, the Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorial Nahuatl, a speech which as described verbatim in the codex ( written by Sahagún's Tlatelolcan informants who were probably not eyewitnesses of the meeting ) included such prostrate declarations of divine or near-divine admiration as, " You have graciously come on earth, you have graciously approached your water, your high place of Mexico, you have come down to your mat, your throne, which I have briefly kept for you, I who used to keep it for you ," and, " You have graciously arrived, you have known pain, you have known weariness, now come on earth, take your rest, enter into your palace, rest your limbs ; may our lords come on earth.

In Central Mexico, the Aztec Emperors built many palaces in the capital of their empire, Tenochtitlan ( modern day Mexico City ), some of which may still be seen.

With increasingly bizarre action storylines coming into vogue Luke and Laura saved the world from being frozen, brought a mobster down by finding his black book in a Left-Handed Boy Statue, and helped a Princess find her Aztec Treasure in Mexico.

A thriving culture developed, and the Aztec civilization came to dominate other tribes all around Mexico.

* Huesos de Lagartija, a novel by Federico Navarrete, tells the story of a young Aztec who lived through the European invasion of Mexico.

* Aztec, a novel by Gary Jennings, is told through the eyes of an Aztec in the times of the European conquest of Mexico.

* Foundation of Tenochtitlan, Aztec capital city, in the valley of Mexico.

Mexican Emperor Maximilian built his palace, Chapultepec Castle, over the ruins of an Aztec one.

* Templo Mayor, the main temple of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan ( now Mexico City ), is built.

In Mexico, Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Aztec empire, built on an island in Lake Texcoco in what is now the Federal District in central Mexico.

From the 13th century, the Valley of Mexico was the heart of Aztec civilization: here the capital of the Aztec Triple Alliance, the city of Tenochtitlan, was built upon raised islets in Lake Texcoco.

Tenochtitlan () was the capital of the Aztec empire, which was built on an island in Lake Texcoco in what is now the Federal District in central Mexico.

While Axayacatl conquered this area, it was a successor, Ahuizotl who had most of the Aztec shrines, temples and other constructions built here.

Unlike later Maya or Aztec cities, La Venta was built from earth and clay — there was little locally abundant stone for the construction.

The Spanish colonial city was built using much of the old Aztec layout and was about the same size.

In the northeast corner, Gil González Dávila built his house at the foot of the old Aztec main temple.

After the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, the first colonial era constructions in the area were evangelical churches built by the Franciscans such as the Church of Santa Cruz in Atoyac in 1564 and the Santo Domingo de Guzmán Church in Mixcoac in 1595.

Shortly thereafter, Aztec emperor Itzcoatl built the causeway or calzada that would connect the two cities over the lake.

Mostly stone buildings can be seen in most major cities, some civilizations built entirely with stone such as the Pyramids in Egypt, the Aztec pyramids and the remains of the Inca civilization.

An Aztec settlement was built on the area, which back then was at the edge of Lake Texcoco.

The modern basilica was built between 1974 and 1976 by the Mexican architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez who was also the architect of the Aztec Stadium and the National Anthropology Museum.

Viejas Arena was built on the site of the old Aztec Bowl football stadium ( a Works Progress Administration project ) on the SDSU campus, and the university ( or its affiliated corporation ) still owns the arena.

The square contains the remains of Aztec temples and is flanked by the Santiago de Tlatelolco Catholic church, built in the 16th century.