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The Aztec history starts at about 2000 b.c
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Around 500 BC the Aztecs started building enormous stone complexes. When I say enormous I mean humongous.
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In 300 BC, as many as 250,000 people lived in this city. It was one of the largest cities in the world long ago.
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Around 150 AD, El Mirador, was abandoned completely. Archeologists don't know why.
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1230-1260- Sinchi Roca ruled the empire. Or, people believe he did.
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Settled near Lake Texcoco.
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Aztec people found capital city, Tenochtitlan.
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1438- Pachacuti took over the throne. His name meant, “World-Shaker”
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Depending upon the occasion, some human sacrifices could've happened and many lives were lost. For example, at a religious celebration in 1487, the Aztecs were said to have offered the lives of 84,400 people over a period of four days.
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Herman Cortes and his fellow Spaniards landed on the Gulf Coast. They allied themselves with a local tribe called Tlaxcala.
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The Spanish first wiped out the Maya's neighbors, the Aztec Empire, in 1521, then moved onto Mayan cities.
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1526- A spaniard, Francisco Pizzaro, had a plan to set sail to the Inca empire.
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August 1526- Pizzaro set sail from his land. Soon will be in Inca territory.
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Cortes and Tlaxcala allied and they sacked the capital city of Tenochtitlan and brought the mighty Aztec Empire to its knees.
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September 24, 1572- Inca empire faded away. No one has carried the empire on since.
