Late Middle Ages · North America · Politics
1325
Mexica found Tenochtitlán in Lake Texcoco
1325
According to legend the wandering Nahuatl speakers saw an eagle perched on a cactus devouring a serpent and knew their promised city lay on the swampy island before them. They drained marsh, built chinampas, and planted a settlement that within two centuries would dominate central Mexico as the Aztec capital.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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