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The 27 pages that link to Mexica, each with the reason it gives.

• Spanish conquest of the Aztec EmpireNarrower topic: Their political power and capital were the campaign's central targets.

• MesoamericaBroader topic: Their empire was a powerful Late Postclassic society encountered by the Spanish.

• Aztec EmpireBroader topic: The Mexica were the alliance's dominant partner, though not the only people in the empire.

• TenochtitlanNarrower topic: Their political and cultural life shaped the city’s identity.

• Moctezuma IINarrower topic: Moctezuma was a Mexica ruler whose authority rested on this people and their capital.

• Bernardino de SahagúnRelated: Their society and traditions form the central subject of Sahagún’s investigations.

• Codex MendozaRelated: They are the people whose history and social life the manuscript depicts.

• Siege of TenochtitlanNarrower topic: The siege targeted their capital and brought their imperial government to an end.

• Aztec agricultureRelated: Their capital's growth intensified demand for food from the basin and tribute regions.

• ChinampaRelated: Mexica communities expanded and managed chinampa farming around the lake basin.

• Lake TexcocoRelated: Their capital grew on islands within Lake Texcoco.

• Aztec human sacrificeNarrower topic: The rites commonly called Aztec sacrifice belonged especially to Mexica state and religious institutions.

• Aztec calendarRelated: Their institutions and religious practices shaped the calendar’s use in the Aztec Empire.

• CuauhtémocNarrower topic: Cuauhtémoc inherited leadership of the Mexica during their final struggle against Spanish conquest.

• HuitzilopochtliRelated: Huitzilopochtli was the Mexica's patron deity and a central figure in their political identity.

• Bernal Díaz del CastilloNarrower topic: Díaz’s narrative depicts the people and political order that the Spanish expedition confronted.

• La Noche TristeRelated: Mexica forces attacked the retreating column from the city and its waterways.

• AztlanRelated: Their identity and remembered migration are the historical setting for Aztlan.

• Fall of TenochtitlanNarrower topic: The city’s defenders belonged to a society distinct from the Spanish forces and their allies.

• Mexico City Metropolitan CathedralRelated: The cathedral occupies ground within their former island capital.

• Purépecha EmpireCompared with: Mexica expansion repeatedly met resistance from Purépecha rulers.

• Mesoamerican architectureNarrower topic: Mexica political and religious institutions shaped the architecture of Tenochtitlan.

• NahuasBroader topic: The Mexica are a prominent historical Nahua people, not a name for all Nahuas.

• AztecsBroader topic: The Mexica were the empire’s ruling people and the group most often meant by “Aztecs.”

• History of Mexico CityRelated: Their political power and urban traditions shaped the city before Spanish rule.

• Museum of Mexico CityRelated: Their capital forms a foundational layer of the city’s history presented by the museum.

• William H. PrescottBroader topic: Prescott called their empire Aztec and made its defeat central to his Mexican history.