They did not erect temples and disseminate cultural traditions across the countryside as the ancient Romans or Inca did. Instead, the Aztec maintained what some scholars call "a cheap empire," one ...

And if you see the extension of the Inca Empire, if you compare them in the map with the Aztecs, it’s like four of five times more than the other big empire in the Americas. You can measure the ...

The Inca didn’t use freeze-drying solely for ... but modern chewing gum has its roots, literally, in the Aztec Empire and the sapodilla tree, native to Mesoamerica and the Caribbean.

The Inca used a number of common plants to treat ... from Nahuatl to Latin to English with a grain of salt.) The Aztec empire’s reputation for violence is exaggerated but not unwarranted ...

To the Incan eye, the landscape of their empire was riddled with shrines. Often these were inanimate objects like rocks and streams. But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks ...

The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan ... translated into English and offers an alternate history in which the Incas and Aztecs conquered Europe. It’s fiction, of course, but it makes ...