The Aztec or Nahuatl script is a pre-Columbian writing system that combines ideographic writing with Nahuatl specific phonetic logograms and syllabic...

Aztecs (/ˈæztɛks/ AZ-teks) were a Mesoamerican civilization that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec...

Aztec mythology is the body or collection of myths of the Aztec civilization of Central Mexico. The Aztecs were a culture living in central Mexico and...

(English: /ˈnɑːwɑːtəl/ NAH-wah-təl; Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈnaːwat͡ɬ] ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages...

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

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 Aztec religion is a polytheistic and monistic pantheism in which the Nahua concept of teotl was construed as the supreme god Ometeotl, as well as...

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...

the Maya civilization's script could. The Spanish introduced the Latin script, which was then used to record a large body of Aztec prose and poetry, which...

– Nahuan languages, especially Classical Nahuatl (Aztec script), Mixtecan languages (Mixtec script), others. In a syllabary, graphemes represent syllables...

belief system. Writer John Lucarotti was commissioned to write The Aztecs by script editor David Whitaker on 25 February 1964, while another of his stories—the...

outside the Maya Lowlands, the most well known of which are the Aztec Script and the Mixtec Script). All Mesoamerican writing systems are thought by linguist...

Linear B, Chinese characters, Maya script, Aztec script, Mixtec script, and the first five phases of the Bamum script. A peculiar system of logograms developed...

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

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...

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

The fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, was an important event in the Spanish conquest of the empire. It occurred in 1521 following...

The Aztec Empire, also known as the Triple Alliance (Classical Nahuatl: Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, [ˈjéːʃkaːn̥ t͡ɬaʔtoːˈlóːjaːn̥]) or the Tenochca Empire, was...

writing scripts have not been allocated an ISO 15924 code. APL Avoiuli script Aztec script Badaga Bagam Balti A Balti B Bété Bhujimol script Borama Bronze...

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...

The Codex Mendoza is an Aztec codex, believed to have been created around the year 1541. It contains a history of both the Aztec rulers and their conquests...

the Aztec Empire when Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador, and his men seized the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. During his reign, the Aztec Empire...

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

"Water mirror" glyph used in Aztec script...

(Algic + Beothuk + Gulf) (macro-)Arawakan Arutani–Sape (Ahuaque–Kalianan) Aztec–Tanoan   (Uto-Aztecan + Tanoan) Chibchan–Paezan Chikitano–Boróroan Chimu–Chipaya...

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...

partly in indigenous scripts and partly in postconquest transcriptions in the Latin script. After the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1521, Spanish...

The history of the Nahuatl, Aztec or Mexicano language can be traced back to the time when Teotihuacan flourished. From the 4th century AD to the present...

Mesoamerican writing systems Aztec script Isthmian script Maya script Mixtec writing Olmec hieroglyphs Zapotec script Meroitic script Mi'kmaw hieroglyphs Muisca...

(Spanish: Ceremonia del Fuego Nuevo) was an Aztec ceremony performed once every 52 years—a full cycle of the Aztec “calendar round”—in order to stave off the...