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 a culture living in central Mexico and...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

by the Aztecs including the ability to calculate the areas of irregular plots of land. H.R. Harvey and Barbara J. Williams, eds. "Preface" Códice Santa...

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...

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

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...

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

and 32. The Spanish Conquest Mesoamerican Codices Aztec codices Diego Durán Leal, Luis (1953). "El Codice Ramirez". Historia Mexicana. 3 (1): 11–33....

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...

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...

The Codex Huamantla also known as the Codex of Huamantla and Códice de Huamantla is an Otomi codex. It contains the work of two artists, and is believed...

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