Aztec architecture (full) with houses and architectural values. The city had a grid surrounding the four sides, each side having a platform with stairs. The Hueyi Teocalli (Great Temple) was a huge temple with a wash basin at the top. This temple was between 100 and 80 meters tall and was the biggest building in the Aztec city Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs dominated central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. Their capital was Tenochtitlan on the shore of Lake Texcoco – the site of modern-day Mexico City. Aztec architectural sites include: The Aztec civilization was an origin of Central Americas, Primarily
Olmecs Olmec chronology came to a head at a 1942 Tuxtla Gutierrez conference, where Alfonso Caso declared that the Olmecs were the "mother culture" (""cultura madre"") of Mesoamerica. Shortly after the conference, radiocarbon dating proved the antiquity of the Olmec civilization, although the "mother culture" question generated considerable debate even 60 years later. The name "Olmec" means "rubber people" in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec, and was the Aztec name for the people who lived in the Gulf Lowlands in the 15th and 16th centuries, some 2000 years after the Olmec culture died out. The term "rubber people" refers to