Obelisk

The Aztec world began and ended with the city of Tenochtitlán, a shining city rising from an island in Lake Texcoco in central Mexico. Tenochtitlán was the first settlement by the hunter-gatherer Aztec people when they migrated from the northern Mexican plateau in 1325. For 100 years after its founding, the Aztec people developed sophisticated agricultural techniques, cultivating every cubit of available land, reclaiming swampland and building elaborate irrigation systems. read more