Mexico has a aztc pyramid?

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Hector

Remix..... Teotihuacan is not an aztec pyramid... it is a great ancient city (600 bc) buil by the ancestors of the Toltecas...

In MÃ©xico City you can find "El Templo Mayor", just near the ZÃ³calo, but most of the buildings in TenochtitlÃ¡n were destroyed by the spanish conquerers.

XxRemyxX

Chichen Itza isnt an aztec Piramid, its a Mayan City.
Aztec Piramids? right, used to be called Tenochtitlan, you can find some in Teotihuacan (near to mexico City) or maybe at the Plaza de las tres culturas ( three cultures plaza), inside Mexico City, ( the aztecs lived in where now Mexico City rests).

bassmeister-D

If aztc means Aztec then the answer is yes. The Aztecs actually called themselves Tenochca or Mexica-pronounced Meh-SHEE-kah. They settled on a swampy island in the middle of lake Texcoco in the Mexico Valley and built TenÃ³chtitlÃ¡n, what is now Mexico City. there are still some ruins that the Spanish did not destroy.

Rolling my eyes now that I read the other answers.
ChichÃ©n ItzÃ¡-a Mayan City in the YucatÃ¡n peninsula. The Mayas were a culture. The Aztecs were a group that was part of a much larger Nahua ethnicity that had a similar but not identical culture to the Maya.
TeotihuÃ¡can is not Aztec and it is not Toltec. Tula was built by the Toltecs in the 11th-12 century A.D. after the demise of TeotihuÃ¡can which began in the 9th century. The earliest remnants found at TeotihuÃ¡can date to around the time of Christ or slightly before. We do not know who built TeotihuÃ¡can, what they called themselves or what language they spoke. They did, however, have a culture related to the Maya and which influenced everything that came after from central Mexico all the way to Central America. This general area is known as Meso-American and the associated cultures are called Meso-American culture(s).
There is a thing called the "Aztec Calender." This term is in reference to a circular stone with many glyphs on it that was found in the ruins of the Aztec capital, TenochtitlÃ¡n. This was only one representation of the calender stones. Others have been found. The Aztec calender should be called more properly the Meso-American calender because it was used in all of Meso-America. The Aztecs did not invent much of anything themslves they adopted and assimilated to the already extant Meso-American culture that they discovered in the Mexico Valley.

Rafael G

Hector has the rigth answer, "Templo Mayor" is the aztec pyramid in Mexico City, also Tlatelolco but Templo Mayor is much better becaue is more big and you can find an incredible museum with all the aztec tresaures the arqueologist found.

Gata de Barrio

Bassmeis already gave a very good Mexico 101 answer to this quite silly question. The remains of the Templo Mayor is located behind the cathetral Nacional next to the Zocalo square in downtown Mexico City (Actually I visited the Zocalo today as a matter of fact).

Most of the few remnants of TenochtitlÃ¡n are under the ground of Mexico City just waiting to be unearthed. They have been unearthing new and fascinating pyramid constructions that are definitely Aztec in la Plaza de las tres culturas in the Tlatelolco area recently. If the area wasn't so slumy and dangerous I'd do there alone. Carbon tests are showing that the pyramids are older than once thought, at least 1,000 years old and not 700 as once thought.

There's other minor pyramids scattered all over Mexico City. One of the small pyramids is in a hill called Tizayuca which isn't that far from where I live though I've never been there.

TeotihuacÃ¡n was occupied by the Aztecs, but they basically entered a ghost city. The history is fuzzy because a lot of archeologists claim the Aztecs did meet the Teotihuacan indians in their demise and defeated them (taking into consideration the Aztecs were a warrior culture), others claim they never met and that they abandoned the city from famine (the area surrounding the pyramids is kind of desertic).

As Bassemeis clearly stated, the Toltecs lived in what is currently the state of Hidalgo and built Tula. Tula is the only city this ethnic group built. Some do theorize the Toltecs and the Teotihuacans were related though.

The Mayans and Aztecs spoke totally different languages, lived in very far away regions of the country and their pyramids clearly look very different. It's not even clear whether they lived that long in the same era together though there's theories they could have had some sort of contact because of the many similarities in their two cultures.

The Mesoamerican calendar is way different (and in my opinion far superior) to the Gregorian calendar we use. Each month lasts 20 days and the year lasts 360 days. Each day of each month follows a four color sequence depending on the cardinal signs and each of these days that alternate endlessly have a special significance and the culture would do or not do specific things depending on the day. For example, it was a bad omen to do commercil business on a day called "storm". A person's fortune could be dependant on the day that person was born (much like the 12 Zodiac signs). The last day of the year (365) is a special religious day of death and rebirth. Some villages still use this calendar believe it or not.

patsmight

there are archeological sites all over mexico. yucatan, chiapas, queretaro, estado de mexico, veracruz, hidalgo. i can name a lot more but i think that answers your question

Elite Gamer

i think they do

The Mayan built most of the pyramids including Chichen Itza.

The Aztec are a ethic group in central Mexico they built Templo Mayor (destroyed). They are more famous for their calendar.

leroberto

of course we do

its called chichen itza , and its in the state of yucatan mexico
i was there 3 weeks ago and its amazing ..

i recommend it to you a lot!

greetings from monterrey,mexico

if you want more info about it ,

robertgo_8818@hotmail.com

im sure that you ll love mexico !

bye!

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