Aztecs

The Aztecs were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico. They spoke the Nahuatl language. They dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. Aztecs is Nahuatl word for "people from Aztlan", a mythological place for the Nahuatl-speaking culture of the time, and later adopted as the word to define the mexican people. Aztec culture and history is primarily known through archeological evidence found in exavations such as that of the renowned templo mayor in Mexico City and many others, from eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors such as Hernan Cortez and Bernal Diaz del Castillo and especially from 16th and 17th century descriptions of Aztec culture and history written by Spanish clergymen and literate Aztecs in the Spanish or Nahuatl language.