Aztec Warrior Societies: +25% Attack, +25% Hitpoints to Aztec natives.

However, they are only meant to be played in vanilla because in The War Chiefs they are replaced by the Zapotecs. They also have some better upgrades than other native posts may have. They have two units, the Aztec Eagle Warrior and the Aztec Jaguar Warrior (note that these units are not the same as the Eagle Runner Knight and the Jaguar Prowl Knight). The Aztecs are avialable on the maps Sonora, Yucatan, and possibly The Unknown. The Aztecs are available as both a playable civilization in The War Chiefs, and as a native trading post in vanilla Age of Empires III. The Spanish also allied with the Aztec's enemies, namely the Tlaxcala, to increase their armies, and had the advantage of steel and gunpowder weapons. By some estimates the Aztec population of 12 million people in 1520 had fallen to one million by 1600. This was due in large part to the epidemics the Europeans brought ashore, and Cortez' coincidental arrival, conflicting with the arrival of their god Quetzalcoatl, which caused confusion between the Aztec people. Everything to be moved was carried by human porters, or through the advanced canal system in Tenochtitlan.ĭespite their large population and fighting prowess, the Aztecs fell relativley quickly to the determined Spanish conquistadores under Cortez.

They were handicapped by the lack of large domesticated animals (they had no horse or ox), and the use of wheel only in toys. Their society depended on sophisticated agricultural techniques from them the world learned of foodstuffs including tomatoes, corn, cocoa, and chili peppers.

Their soldiers wielded weapons of wood and stone, and they often sought prisoners to be sacrificed in religious ceremonies. The Aztecs were just one of several tribes in the area, but had risen to prominence due to their ferocity in battle and adept diplomacy. This was one of the largest cities in the New World (with an estimated population of 200000), and arguably more beautiful and cleaner than any contemporary captial in The people living here were called the Aztecs (also Mexica or Tenocha) they built an amazing civilization centered on their great capital city of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City). The most densley populated region of the New World in 1492 was Mesoamerica, where North and Central America meet in modern Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula.

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