The Aztec domain occupied central and southern Mexico, stretching from Toluca Valley to the borders of Guatemala and encompassing the states of Veracruz, Puebla, Hidalgo, Mexico, Morelos, Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Chiapas. Their principal place was the capital city of Tenochtitlan. The Aztec social structure was pyramidal, with nobles and priests at the top followed by merchants, warriors, tenants, and slaves. Their economy was based on agriculture of crops like corn, fruit, tobacco, and chilies. They spoke Nahuatl and had a writing system that incorporated pictograms, ideograms, and phonetic signs to record their history, geography

2. They was located on a small island west of Texcoco
Lake. The Aztec domain occupied most of central and
southern part of the current Mexico, stretching from
the west of Toluca Valley, encompassing almost all the
states of Veracruz, Puebla, in the center, Hidalgo,
Mexico and Morelos, in the south, much of the states
of Guerrero and Oaxaca, and Chiapas Coast to the
border with Guatemala. However, were outside its
domain Meztitlán manors (in Hidalgo), Teotitlan and
Tututepec (in Oaxaca), Purepecha (in Michoacan),
Yopitzingo (Guerrero) and Tlaxcala.

4. Their principal place was the capital, Tenochtitlan.
The Aztec culture is known for being good at
administration.
Their social organization was a pyramidal
stratification. At the top of this pyramid were the
Nobles and Priests. After these, were the merchants
and warriors. Finally, at the base of the pyramid, the
tenants and then the slaves.
The Aztec economy was based on the cultivation of the
land, that is to say, agriculture.
The main crops practiced by the Aztecs were corn,
fruit, snuff and chilies.

5. The Aztecs spoke a language called Nahuatl.
Writing mixed pictograms, ideograms and phonetic
signs. In their writings reflected their own history,
geography, economics, religion, etc.
The emperor called tlatoani had unlimited power,
which covered all things and all people.

7. Veneration of Huitzilopochtli,
the personification of the sun
and of war, was central to the
religious, social and political
practices of the aztecs.
Huitzilopochtli attained this
central position after the
founding of Tenochtitlan and
the formation of the aztec city-
state society in the 14th century.

8. Tezcatlipoca, god of the gods
Tlaloc, rain god

9. Xiuhtecuhtli, god of fire
Tezcatlipoca, lord of heaven and earth
Quetzalcóatl

10. The Aztec art includes artistic expression of the
Mexica, among which are literature, music,
architecture, sculpture, visual arts and dance.
Aztec feather headdress, often described as the crown of Moctezuma

11. Eagle warrior sculpture.
Museo del Templo Mayor,
Mexico City
Ahuitzotl shield