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    The Aztec civilization flourished in central Mexico from 1300 to 1521, when the Aztec Empire was established through a triple alliance between the Mexica, Texcoca, and Tepaneca tribes. The Aztecs spoke Nahuatl and dominated large parts of Mesoamerica during the 14th to 16th centuries. Aztec culture is primarily known through archaeological excavations, indigenous codices, Spanish accounts, and descriptions written by Spanish clergymen and Aztecs in the post-conquest period. At its height, Aztec culture had rich mythological traditions and architectural and artistic achievements.

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    The Aztec civilization flourished in central Mexico from 1300 to 1521, when the Aztec Empire was established through a triple alliance between the Mexica, Texcoca, and Tepaneca tribes. The Aztecs spoke Nahuatl and dominated large parts of Mesoamerica during the 14th to 16th centuries. Aztec culture is primarily known through archaeological excavations, indigenous codices, Spanish accounts, and descriptions written by Spanish clergymen and Aztecs in the post-conquest period. At its height, Aztec culture had rich mythological traditions and architectural and artistic achievements.

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    The Aztec civilization flourished in central Mexico from 1300 to 1521, when the Aztec Empire was established through a triple alliance between the Mexica, Texcoca, and Tepaneca tribes. The Aztecs spoke Nahuatl and dominated large parts of Mesoamerica during the 14th to 16th centuries. Aztec culture is primarily known through archaeological excavations, indigenous codices, Spanish accounts, and descriptions written by Spanish clergymen and Aztecs in the post-conquest period. At its height, Aztec culture had rich mythological traditions and architectural and artistic achievements.

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    The Aztec civilization flourished in central Mexico from 1300 to 1521, when the Aztec Empire was established through a triple alliance between the Mexica, Texcoca, and Tepaneca tribes. The Aztecs spoke Nahuatl and dominated large parts of Mesoamerica during the 14th to 16th centuries. Aztec culture is primarily known through archaeological excavations, indigenous codices, Spanish accounts, and descriptions written by Spanish clergymen and Aztecs in the post-conquest period. At its height, Aztec culture had rich mythological traditions and architectural and artistic achievements.

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    also known as Mexica culture, was a Mesoamerican culture that
    flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to
    1521, during the time in which a triple alliance of the Mexica, Texcoca
    and Tepaneca tribes established the Aztec empire. The Aztec people
    were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups
    who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of 
    Mesoamerica from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
    The Aztec have also referred to themselves as the Meshika or Mehika.[2]
    Aztec culture is the culture of the people referred to as Aztecs, but since
    most ethnic groups of central Mexico in the postclassic period shared
    basic cultural traits, many of the traits that characterize Aztec culture
    cannot be said to be exclusive to the Aztecs. For the same reason, the
    notion of "Aztec civilization" is best understood as a particular horizon
    of a general Mesoamerican civilization.
    The culture of central Mexico includes maize cultivation, the social
    division between pipiltin nobility and macehualtin commoners, a 
    pantheon (featuring Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl), and the 
    calendric system of a xiuhpohualli of 365 days intercalated with
    a tonalpohualli of 260 days.
     Particular to the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan was the Mexica patron God 
    Huitzilopochtli, twin pyramids, and the ceramic ware known as Aztec I
    to III.[3]
    From the 13th century, the Valley of Mexico was the heart of Aztec
    civilization: there the city of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Triple
    Alliance, was built upon raised islets in Lake Texcoco
    Aztec culture and history is primarily known through archaeological evidence found
    in excavations such as that of the renowned Templo Mayor in Mexico City; from 
    indigenous bark paper codices; from eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors
    such as Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo; and especially from 16th- and 17th-
    century descriptions of Aztec culture and history written by Spanish clergymen and
    literate Aztecs in the Spanish or Nahuatl language, such as the famous 
    Florentine Codex compiled by the Franciscan monk Bernardino de Sahagún with the
    help of indigenous Aztec informants. At its height, Aztec culture had rich and
    complex mythological and religious traditions, as well as achieving remarkable
    architectural and artistic accomplishments.
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