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Aztec
Aztec names several board games: a 1996 Niek Neuwahl pyramid-stacking game from Zoch (Spiel des Jahres Schönes Spiel 1997), a 2020 Matagot bluffing game by Stéphane Beaume, plus Aztack, Aztlán, and the historical Patolli.
Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires
Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires (Batman Azteca: Choque de Imperios) is a 2025 Warner Bros. Animation, Ánima, and Chatrone animated film directed by Juan Meza-León, reimagining Batman as Yohualli Coatl in 1521 Tenochtitlan fighting Hernán Cortés.
Aztec calendar
The Aztec calendar, or Mexica calendar, was the paired timekeeping system of the Aztecs of central Mexico: a 260-day ritual count and a 365-day solar count running in a 52-year cycle.
Aztec Camera
Aztec Camera, Scottish indie pop band formed 1980 in East Kilbride by Roddy Frame; Postcard Records debut "Just Like Gold" (1981), breakthrough album High Land, Hard Rain (1983), six albums, disbanded 1995.
Aztec Code
Aztec Code, also called the Aztec barcode, is a two-dimensional barcode symbology invented in 1995 at Welch Allyn, standardized as ISO/IEC 24778 and widely used on airline boarding passes and rail tickets.
Aztec codices
Aztec codices, or amoxtli in Nahuatl, are painted screenfold books created by the Nahua peoples of Mesoamerica to record history, genealogy, and tribute, though most pre-Hispanic examples were lost in the conquest.
Aztec conquest of Cuetlaxtlan
The Aztec conquest of Cuetlaxtlan was the Aztec takeover by force of Cuetlaxtlan, near modern Cotaxtla in Veracruz, Mexico, a tributary province remembered for supplying deer skins.
Aztec conquest of Huexotzinco
The Aztec conquest of Huexotzinco was the incorporation, around 1512, of the Puebla lordship of Huexotzinco into the Aztec tribute sphere, an agreement that broke by 1518, and in 1519 Huexotzinco allied with Cortés against Tenochtitlan.
Aztec conquest of Oaxaca
The Aztec conquest of Oaxaca was the 15th-century Mexica expansion into the Mixtec and Zapotec lands of southern Mexico, consolidated from the garrison of Huaxyacac.
Aztec conquest of Tehuantepec
The Aztec conquest of Tehuantepec was a 1497 campaign by Mexica ruler Ahuitzotl against the Zapotec, whose fortified city Guiengola stopped Aztec expansion in Oaxaca.
Aztec conquest of the Tlatelolcan market quarter
The Aztec conquest of the Tlatelolcan market quarter was the 1473 war in which Tenochtitlan, under Axayácatl, defeated its twin city Tlatelolco, killed its ruler Moquíhuix, and absorbed the city.
Aztec conquest of the Totonac region
The Aztec conquest of the Totonac region brought Totonacapan, on Mexico's Gulf coast in modern Veracruz, into the Aztec Triple Alliance's tribute system before its 1519 breakaway.
Aztec conquest of Tochtepec
The Aztec conquest of Tochtepec was the incorporation of the Gulf Coast province of Tochtepec, in southern Veracruz and northern Oaxaca, into the Aztec tribute system in the 1450s.
Aztec Empire
Aztec Empire (Triple Alliance, 1428-1521): hegemonic coalition of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan ruling 371 tribute-paying city-states in 38 provinces; capital Tenochtitlan, modern Mexico City; fell to Cortés and native allies in 1521.
Aztec featherwork
Aztec featherwork (Nahuatl amantecayotl) was the prestigious Nahua craft of gluing dyed feathers to a paper support or tying them into mosaics, shields, and headdresses, flourishing 1428–1521.
Aztec law
Aztec law governed the Nahuatl-speaking city-states of the Valley of Mexico, most prominently Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, in the century before the Spanish conquest of 1521.
Aztec mythology
Aztec mythology, the religion and cosmology of the Mexica of central Mexico: Five Suns creation myth, 13 heavens and 9 underworlds, 260- and 365-day calendars, gods such as Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc, and sacrifice as reciprocity with the gods.
Aztec philosophy
Aztec philosophy: reflective thought of the Nahuatl-speaking peoples of pre-conquest Central Mexico, centered on teotl, a monist process metaphysics, with reconstructions by León-Portilla (1956) and Maffie (2014).
Aztec religion
Aztec religion was the set of beliefs and practices of the Nahuatl-speaking peoples of central Mexico, centered on teotl, a pantheon of deities, and sacrificial rites.
Aztec stone sculpture
Aztec stone sculpture is the stone carving of the Aztec empire of central Mexico between the 14th and early 16th centuries, from personal objects to monuments.
Aztec Sun Stone
The Aztec Sun Stone, in Spanish Piedra del Sol and often called the Aztec Calendar Stone, is a monumental carved disk from Tenochtitlan unearthed in 1790.
Aztec tribute system
The Aztec tribute system (sistema de tributo mexica) required conquered provinces to pay goods and labor to the Triple Alliance from the 1420s until 1521.
Aztec turquoise mosaic
Aztec turquoise mosaic is a Late Postclassic Mesoamerican decorative technique, dated 1400-1521, in which turquoise tiles were glued onto carved wood to make masks, shields, sacrificial knives, and pectorals.
Aztec warfare
Aztec warfare, the military system of the Mexica and their Triple Alliance (Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, Tlacopan), combined conquest for tribute and territory with ritual campaigns (xochiyaoyotl) to take captives for sacrifice, ending with Tenochtitlan's fall in 1521.
Aztec-Huexotzingo wars
The Aztec-Huexotzingo wars were intermittent conflicts between the Aztec Triple Alliance and Huexotzinco, a major city-state in the Puebla valley, from the mid-1450s until 1519.
Aztec-Tlaxcalan wars
The Aztec-Tlaxcalan wars were protracted conflicts between the Aztec Triple Alliance and the independent confederacy of Tlaxcala, fought from the mid-1400s to 1519 and ending in Tlaxcala's alliance with Cortés.
Aztecs
The Aztecs (Mexica) were the Nahuatl-speaking peoples of central Mexico and the Triple Alliance empire ruled from Tenochtitlan, founded 1325, which dominated Mesoamerica until its fall to Cortés in 1521.
Azteka
Azteka (Ацтека) is a 2014 abstract strategy board game by Andrea Mainini (HUCH!, Zvezda) for 2–3 players, played on four rotating rings with asymmetric Life and Death goals and mummy figures for three players.
Aztlán
Aztlán is the mythical homeland from which the Mexica (Aztecs) migrated before founding Tenochtitlan, recorded in codices like the Boturini and Azcatitlan; its location is debated, and in 1969 it became the Chicano movement's symbolic homeland.
Aztreonam
Aztreonam, the only approved monobactam antibiotic (Azactam, Cayston), targets aerobic Gram-negative bacteria including P. aeruginosa, resists metallo-beta-lactamases, and is paired with avibactam against MBL-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales.