Native Americans who occupied the region around Mexico City at the time of the Spanish Conquest.

Ancient civilization of Central America. It was conquered by Spanish colonization in the XVI century BC.

(Nahuatl) A pre-Hispanic empire that controlled much of central Mexico, with a capital in Tenochtitlan, up until the Spanish conquest. The Aztecs called themselves the Culhua-Mexica. "Huey Tlatoani" or "Great Speaker" was the title of their supreme ruler.

The great cocoa discoverers. They started to cultivate cocoa in the year 400 and their civilisation even used cacao beans as a form of currency. Legend has it that the one of the AZTEC gods QUETZALCOATL bestowed blessings on men in the form of cacao beans which his messenger CACAOTl was responsible for bringing to earth. Cocoa still bears his name today.

The wandering tribe of Mexican-Indians that founded the great city of Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City) around 1325 C.E.