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The Aztec Indians The Aztecs were an Indian people who lived in Central and Southern Mexico. They lived from the 14th to the 16th century. They made a huge empire based on conquest, paying tribute, and religious sacrifice of humans and animals. This is a map of the Aztec Empire by Larry B. The Aztecs made terraces, which were steps descending down a hall to control the flow of water. This kept their crops from …

…anish defeated the Aztecs and the Catholics felt that it was their duty to destroy every trace of the Aztecs. The few Aztecs that remain have carried on their culture today. The Aztecs controlled the flow of water to their crops. They built their city on marshes. They had their own form of writing. They had an intresting religon full of sacrifices. They had a society divided into 3 sections that covered almost all of Mexico.