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Aztec Triple Alliance Expansion

1428 CE – 1521 CE · 93 years

The Aztec Triple Alliance rapidly expanded from the Valley of Mexico to dominate most of central Mesoamerica. Through a combination of military conquest and the ritualized 'Flower Wars', the Aztecs built an empire of 5-6 million people with Tenochtitlan as one of the world's largest cities.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Aztec Triple Alliance (Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, Tlacopan)
  • Various Mesoamerican city-states

Key moments

Defining events in the Aztec Triple Alliance Expansion.

  1. 1428 Tepanec War
  2. 1473 Conquest of Tlatelolco
  3. Flower Wars (ongoing)

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1428 CE and 1521 CE.

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And in the rest of the world

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

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