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AZTECS (from the Nahuatl word aztlan, " place of the Heron," or " Heron " people)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 86 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AUD-BAI
AZTECS (from the Nahuatl word aztlan, " place of the Heron," or " Heron " people) , the native name of one of the tribes that occupied the tableland of
Mexico
  on the arrival of the Spaniards in America. It has been very frequently employed as equivalent to the collective national
title
  of Nahuatlecas or Mexicans. The Aztecs came, according to native tradition, from a country to which they gave the name of Aztlan, usually supposed to lie towards the north-west, but the satisfactory localization of it is one of the greatest difficulties in Mexican history. The date of the exodus from Aztlan is equally undetermined, being fixed by various authorities in the 11th and by others in the 12th
century
 . One Mexican
manuscript
  gives a date equivalent to A.D. 1164. They gradually increased their
influence
  among other tribes, until, by
union
  with the
Toltecs
 , who occupied the tableland before them, they extended their
empire
  to an area of from i8,000 to 20,00C square leagues. The researches of
Humboldt
  gave the first clear insight into the early periods of their history. See
MEXICO
 ; NAHUATLAN STOCK.


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