Source A A priest sacrificing a living human heart to the god Huitzilopochtli
Eduqas specification Component 1F The Voyages of Discovery and Conquest of the Americas, 1492–1522
In 1428 three Aztec cities joined together to form the Triple Alliance — Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopan. By 1519 this Aztec empire was made up of 450 alteptel (city states) ruled by tlatoani (high-ranking nobility) and arranged into 55 provinces with a total population of 10 million. There were two types of provinces:
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