Example sentences for: aztecs

How can you use “aztecs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the early 1500s, Aztecs conquered the province of Coyuca, located between present-day Zihuatanejo and the Coyuca lagoon, and established a coastal capital, which they called Zihuatlan, “Place of Women,” named for the local matriarchal society.

  • But the Aztecs understood that in the Nahuatl language the name Tlecuauhtlacupeuh meant “la que viene volando de la luz como el águila de fuego” (she who comes flying from the region of light like an eagle of fire).

  • Some of the remedies for caída de mollera reportedly performed by the Aztecs are similar to those still used by Chicano families and curanderos.

  • The Aztecs and Chichimecs (a Nahuatl-speaking warrior community) knew Huatulco as an important trading port long before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors.

  • However, the following year, ambitious, young Captain Juan de Grijalva discovered the island of Cozumel and skirted the coast of the peninsula, hearing tales from the Indians of the great civilization of the Aztecs.


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