Summary - Chino Valley Unified School District

The Aztec Empire arose in the Valley of Mexico, a fertile area nearly eight thousand feet above sea level. By the time the . Aztecs [Aztecs: a Mesoamerican people who built an empire in central Mexico that flourished from 1428 to 1519 C.E.] arrived, in the mid-1200s C.E., the valley had been a center of civilization for more than a thousand years. ................
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