The Aztecs and the Incas

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The Aztecs and the Incas
By: deonte Howell
The Aztecs
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Location
Capital
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Location
• The Aztec empire was
located in what is known
today as Mexico.
• The Aztecs are so called
from aztlan (“white
land”), an allusion to their
origins,probably in
northern Mexico.
Capital
• The largest city of the
Aztec culture was called
tenochtitlan,located in
what is now Mexico city.
• Tenochtitlan was the home
of the immigrant
mexica,one of the names
of the Aztec culture people
who found the city in AD
1325 on a swampy island.