The Aztecs established an empire in central and southern Mexico.
It is believed that the Aztecs was a nomadic tribe that arrived in northern Mexico at the beginning of the 13th century and that its great Empire was established in what now is central and southern Mexico whose capital was in the actual site of Mexico City, its prior name was Tenochtitlan. Aztecs reached its maximal extent the years prior to the Spanish colonization in 1521.
