Mexico's Attractions and Past

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The Aztecs History and Mexico’s Attractions

It all started in the beginning when the Aztecs Empire was made. There empire started when there god, Huitzilopochtli sent them a sign to where they were suppose to settle. They built the city of Tenochitlan was soon to become one of the largest cities in the world. The Aztecs became stronger as the made alliances. Their military became stronger too because they started conquering other areas surrounding them.

    The Aztecs empire was organized and strong, but ruled with fear. In 1519 the clash of culture began between the Aztecs and the Spaniards. After the clash between the two cultures, the Aztecs suddenly vanish.

    Mexico’s historical ruins bring attractions of the Aztecs, Mayans, and the Olmec.Somewhere around 1000 BC, the first of Mexico's ancient civilizations, the Olmec, established themselves in what are now the states of Veracruz and Tabasco. They worshipped a jaguar God, build cities,constructed massive stone head carvings, and spread throughout central and southern Mexico until their civilization mysteriously vanished around 400 BC.

The Maya, for example, were so advanced in mathematics and astronomy that their calendar was the world's most accurate until this century. They could also predict solar and lunar eclipses.Mayan history starts in the Yucatan around 2600 B.C., Mayan history rose to the peak of success around A.D. 250 in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, western Honduras, El Salvador, and northern Belize.  Maya developed astronomy, calendrical systems and hieroglyphic writing. The Maya were noted as well for planed and highly decorated ceremonial architecture, including temple-pyramids, palaces and observatories, all built without metal tools.

The Conquest of New Spain, a great and tragic history, begins in April of 1519  when a Cortes lands in Veracruz, about 200 miles from the Aztec capital.  Cortes  had a singular mission: defeat the Aztecs and take their gold. To do so, he had  less than 400 soldiers, 16 horses, 14 pieces of artillery, 11 ships, plenty of guns and ammunition. Cortes landed on the coast at Veracruz on April 22, 1519 and the Aztec capital surrendered to him on August 13, 1521.