Aztec codices (Nahuatl languages: Mēxihcatl āmoxtli Nahuatl pronunciation: [meːˈʃiʔkatɬ aːˈmoʃtɬi], sing. codex) are Mesoamerican manuscripts made by...

Aztec mythology is the body or collection of myths of the Aztec civilization of Central Mexico. The Aztecs were Nahuatl-speaking groups living in central...

Cholula, are sometimes not considered to be Aztec codices, because they were produced outside of the Aztec "heartland". Karl Anton Nowotny, nevertheless...

Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was a pivotal event in the history of the Americas, marked by the collision of the Aztec Triple Alliance and the...

the religious Juan de Zumárraga, who collected the Aztec documents to be incinerated. Aztec codices Damago Soto Hieroglyph Nahuatl language Lacadena, Alfonso...

The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. They called themselves Mēxihcah (pronounced...

forty percent of the native population in the area within a year. The Aztecs codices give ample depictions of the disease's progression. It was known to...

evidence for this, found in a passage of the Códice Matritense de la Real Academia and presented in his book Aztec Thought and Culture. In a section on the...

divine history, as they sought political legitimacy. Pictographic codices in which the Aztecs recorded their history say that the empire's place of origin...

Perhaps the best-known examples among such documents are Aztec codices, Maya codices, and Mixtec codices, but other cultures such as the Tlaxcaltec, the Purépecha...

the ancient world. Some codices are continuously folded like a concertina, in particular the Maya codices and Aztec codices, which are actually long...

festivals were associated. Visual accounts of Aztec sacrificial practice are principally found in codices and some Aztec statuary. Many visual renderings were...

The ancient Aztecs employed a variety of entheogenic plants and animals within their society. The various species have been identified through their depiction...

that depict the history of Acolhuacan. Aztec codices Codex Xolotl Mohar Betancourt, Luz María (1999). "El Códice Quinatzin: De valientes guerreros chichimecas...

Aztec philosophy was a school of philosophy that developed out of Aztec culture. Aztec cosmology was in some sense dualistic, but exhibited a less common...

Maya codices (sg.: codex) are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper. The...

Cuauhnahuac, a major altepetl of the southern Aztec empire, rebelled on three occasions. The Aztecs responded with intense violence, which only fueled...

1579). He was fluent in Nahuatl, the Aztec language, and was therefore able to consult natives and Aztec codices as well as work done by earlier friars...

Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco are Aztec codices made during the 1500s by Tlacuilos [es] or Aztec scribes. It details the Founding of Tetepilco (now the...

The Nahua people such as the Aztecs, Chichimecs and the Toltecs believed that the heavens were constructed and separated into 13 levels, usually called...

Aztec society was a highly complex and stratified society that developed among the Aztecs of central Mexico in the centuries prior to the Spanish conquest...

Maya Script did. Therefore, generally Aztec writing was not meant to be read, but to be told. The elaborate codices were essentially pictographic aids for...

The Codex Tudela is a 16th-century pictorial Aztec codex. It is based on the same prototype as the Codex Magliabechiano, the Codex Ixtlilxochitl, and...

conquest of the Aztec Empire, wherein Hernán Cortés, his army of Spanish conquistadors, and their native allies were driven out of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan...

commanders Folio 69 recto Moctezuma II's palace Mesoamerican Codices Aztec codex Maya codices Berdan, F. F.; Anawalt, P. R. (1992). "Codex Mendoza". Scientific...

Mictlan (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈmikt͡ɬaːn]) is the underworld of Aztec mythology. Most people who die would travel to Mictlan, although other possibilities...

The Aztec or Mexica calendar is the calendrical system used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico. It is one of the Mesoamerican...

Cuauhtemotzín, Guatimozín, or Guatémoc, was the Aztec ruler (tlatoani) of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521, and the last Aztec Emperor. The name Cuauhtemōc means "one...

to Codex Azcatitlan. Mesoamerican codices Aztec codices Lorenzo Boturini Aztecs Aztlán Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire "Tlatoque" is the plural form...

described and pictured in the Codex Mendoza' and the Florentine Codex, Aztec codices created between 1540 and 1585. Tribute records from the Mendoza Codex...