Aztec History
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Aztec History
Aztecs lived a roaming lifestyle going through many hardships and distant regions of the north around 1200 AD. Later on face a stage where they were enslaved by a more skilled tribe. After more wandering they finally settled in the south-western borders on one of the primary lakes in Mexico in 1325. Legend has it that it was here that the Aztecs saw a soaring eagle on a cactus with a serpent in its mouth, in my strongest opinion Id say they'd look up to the eagle as a godlike predator that fulfils many courses indicating how easy for them it is to survive simply because of the role that they play in the food chain.
After more roving, seeing that the marshes near the lake were half buried under water, the Aztecs sank quantities into the idle, and elevated their homes and floating gardens. They lived off wild prey and on the vegetables they would raise in their gardens. Only known to the Europeans before and by people today as Mexico, to the Aztecs it was called Tenochtitlan. Thanks to the eagles foreshadow, conditions were far from the main group and moved to a neighborhood with low-lying land. This resulted in dilemmas and prevented the Aztecs from successfully expanding into other areas. However they rapidly increased numerously and improved their organization and military discipline, later gaining a fearsome reputation in the Mexican Valley for being courageous and cruel in war...