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The Canon · No. 064
Aztec Religion
Mexica religion
c.1300 – 1521 CE · Indigenous American · Extinct · Central Mexico
V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1325 CE Tenochtitlan founded on the island where an eagle was seen on a cactus — the image now on the Mexican flag.
- 1428 CE Triple Alliance formed; Tlacaelel reportedly orders older histories burned and rewrites Mexica origins to place Huitzilopochtli at the centre.
- 1487 CE Templo Mayor dedicated with mass sacrifice.
- 1502–1520 CE Reign of Moctezuma II.
- 1519 CE Cortés lands.
- <strong>1521 CE</strong> Tenochtitlan falls after a siege, with smallpox doing much of the work. The state religion is abolished within a generation.
- 1531 CE The apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe at Tepeyac, a hill previously associated with the goddess Tonantzin. Guadalupe becomes the vehicle through which indigenous Mexico enters Catholicism, and remains the most visited Catholic shrine in the world.
- 1978 CE Electrical workers uncover the Coyolxauhqui stone in Mexico City; the Templo Mayor excavation begins.
### Sources
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