Aztec

A cute thing is the Aztecs called themselves the Mexica. The Aztecs were a name the other tribes used to refer to this bloody, aggressive empire at its peak (just as the Spanish were.)

Keep in mind the Spanish could not have won as easily without the help of diseases such as Smallpox and the other tribes.

Az"tec (?), a.

Of or relating to one of the early races in Mexico that inhabited the great plateau of that country at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519.

n.

One of the Aztec race or people.

© Webster 1913.