History of the Aztecs would eventually break the alliance, but not until decades later. History of the Aztecs The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. They called themselves Mexicah (pronounced [meˈʃikaʔ]). The capital of the Aztec Empire was Tenochtitlan. During the empire, the city was built on a raised island in Lake Angels. Modern-day Mexico City was constructed on the ruins of Tenochtitlan. The Spanish colonisation of the Americas reached the mainland during the reign of Hueyi Tlatoani Moctezuma II (Montezuma II). In 1521, Hernán Cortés, along with an allied army of other Native
The Modern Home Physician use in the home. It has 728 pages that also contain, apart from the text, 232 photographs and almost 700 drawings. The Modern Home Physician The Modern Home Physician, A New Encyclopedia of Medical Knowledge is a medical encyclopedia first published in 1934 by the Wm. H. Wise & Company in New York City. It was edited by Victor Robinson, Ph. C., M.D., who was a physician and professor of the History of Medicine at Temple University's School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and also the editor-in-chief of the reading materials "Historia Medicinae", "Medical Life", and "Medical Review of Reviews".