Aztec Indians. Located Located in South Central Mexico.

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Aztec Indians

Located Located in South Central Mexico

Famous For? The Aztecs were famous for their agriculture, cultivating all available land, introducing irrigation, draining swamps, and creating artificial islands in the lakes. They developed a form of hieroglyphic writing, a complex calendar system, and built famous pyramids and temples.

Legend Legend has it that the Aztecs wandered for many years in search of a sign, an eagle and a serpent fighting on a cactus, to show them where to found their city.

What Happened In 1519 Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mexico and defeated the Aztecs. 8 Omens Occurred 10 years prior to the Spanish arrival.

The 8 Omens a strange appearance in the eastern sky, fire consuming the temple of Huitzilopochtli, a lightning bolt destroying the straw temple of Xiuhtecuhtli, the appearance of streaking fire across the sky, the “boiling,” and later flooding, of a lake nearby Tenochtitlan, women weeping for night upon night, the capturing of an unknown creature with a fishing net, and the sightings of strange monsters having two heads and only one body throughout the city.