Aztecs dominated large parts of Mesoamerica for two centuries.
 After the fall of Tenochtitlan on 13 August 1521 and the capture of the emperor Cuauhtmoc, the Spanish founded Mexico City on the ruins of Tenochtitlan
 Although the term Aztecs is often narrowly restricted to the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, it is also broadly used to refer to Nahua polities or peoples of central Mexico in the prehispanic era, as well as the Spanish colonial era (15211821)

