Before Hernán Cortes' arrival in Tenochtitlan, the city was the capital of the Mexica empire, which was ruled by the tlatoani Moctezuma Xocoyotzin, or Moctezuma II. The city was splendid and had ...

The Mexican Archaeology magazine of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) emphasizes that the peoples of Mexico-Tenochtitlan stood out for “efficiently taking advantage of ...

from along the waterways of the capital of Tenochtitlan (modern-day Mexico City) and mashed the fruit with water. They then ...