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Aztec Empire ME (orthographic projection)
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Polity Americas

Aztec Empire

1325 CE – 1521 CE · 196 years

Alliance of three Nahua city states in Mexico (1428–1521)

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How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Aztec Empire's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. The atlas itself draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 1500 CE to 1500 CE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

1500 CE

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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San Agustín Archaeological Park

600 BCE – 1350 CE

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Maya city-states

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Qhapaq Ñan (Inca Royal Road)

1400 CE – 1572 CE

Conflict · Americas

Aztec Triple Alliance Expansion

1428 CE – 1521 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1325 CE and 1521 CE.

1325 CE Templo Mayor 1325 CE Tenochtitlán Market 1400 CE Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau 1400 CE Ingapirca 1400 CE Ollantaytambo 1428 CE Aztec Triple Alliance Expansion

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Landmark · Europe 350 BCE – 1404 CE Byzantine Empire Polity · Europe 395 CE – 1453 CE Mediterranean Southern Route Trade route · Middle East 331 BCE – 1500 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Mansa Musa Figure · Mali / West Africa 1280 CE – 1337 CE Rangitoto Island Landmark · Oceania 1450 CE – still standing
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