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According to Aztec legend, in 1323, the Mexicas were shown a vision of an eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus, eating a snake.
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the Mexica settle on an island in a marshy region of lake texcoco and founded the city that would become their capital, Tenochtitlan.
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under the rule of itzocatl and motecuzoma I, the Aztecs expanded and advanced against the Oaxaca in southwestern mexico, and slaughtered many of the inhabitants.
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Moctezuma I succeeded Itzcoatl as Hueyi Tlatoani in 1440.
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Mexica joined forces with two neighboring cities, Texcoco and Tlacopan, to create a triple alliance that guided the Aztec empire
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A temple at the top of a great pyramid at Tenochtitlan is the location for the sacrifices. When the pyramid was enlarged in 1487, the ceremony of re-dedication involves so much bloodshed that the line of victims stretches far out of the city and the slaughter lasts four days.
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Christopher Columbus ends the isolation of the western hemisphere, and begins interaction between the two hemispheres.
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Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in 1519, the Aztecs dominated central Mexico and as far south as present-day Guatemala
