Polity · 1395 CE – 1520 CE
Aztec Triple Alliance
Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān
- Peak recorded area
- 211,714 km²
- 1502 CE
- Rulers on record
- 8
- from 1395 CE
- Data series
- 10
- 1520 CE–1520 CE
Overview
The Aztec Empire, also known as the Triple Alliance or historiographically as the Tenochca Empire, was an alliance of three Nahua city-states: Mexico-Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan. These three city-states ruled that area in and around the Valley of Mexico from 1428 until the combined forces of the Spanish conquistadores and their native allies who ruled under Hernán Cortés defeated them in 1521.
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Territory
12 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
The record
The best-attested series in each category; where several projects publish the same quantity, the one with the most observations is shown. Each row is the most recent value the record holds at or before 1520 CE, shown with the year that value belongs to. Some statistical series also publish forward projections — the year column is the honest guide. Nothing on this page is interpolated or estimated by us.
People
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Community Size | 8ordinal1520 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Economy
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Agriculture Intensity | 6ordinal1520 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Agriculture | 7ordinal1520 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Fishing | 1ordinal1520 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Gathering | 0ordinal1520 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Hunting | 1ordinal1520 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Husbandry | 1ordinal1520 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Governance
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Jurisdictional Hierarchy | 3ordinal1520 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Political Succession | 1ordinal1520 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Development
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Class Stratification | 5ordinal1520 CE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Rulers
8 on record with dated reigns. Reign years follow the house convention: BCE years are negative.
- Tlacacuitlahuatzintlatoani1395 CE – 1450 CE
- Huitzilihuitltlatoani1396 CE – 1417 CE
- Chimalpopocatlatoani1417 CE – 1427 CE
- Maxtlatlatoani1426 CE – 1428 CE
- Moctezuma Itlatoani1440 CE – 1469 CE
- Xilomantzintlatoani1440 CE – 1473 CE
- Axayacatltlatoani1469 CE – 1481 CE
- Ahuitzotltlatoani1486 CE – 1502 CE
Language & currency
- Official & national languages
- Classical Nahuatl
- Currency
- Quachtli, cocoa bean
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)Ethnographic Atlas (D-PLACE 2.3)
Kirby, K.R. et al. (2016). D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE 11(7).
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Aztec Triple Alliance is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.