They Built a City on Water — and Lost It in Two Years | The Aztecs

Five hundred years ago, one of the largest cities in the world stood in the middle of a lake — bigger than London, bigger than the Rome of its day. A white city on the water, with pyramids and floating gardens. In less than two years, it was destroyed. This is the complete story of the Aztecs — the splendor and the fall of Tenochtitlan. You will discover: • The eagle-on-a-cactus prophecy that founded the city • The chinampas, the floating gardens that fed a metropolis • Moctezuma, the most powerful man in the Americas • The arrival of Cortés in 1519 and his scuttled ships • La Malinche, the Tlaxcalan allies, and La Noche Triste • Smallpox and the siege of 1521 • How Mexico City was built on the ruins Subscribe to World in Stories for more true history, told the way it deserves to be told. Image credits (Wikimedia Commons): public-domain historical works/artifacts (Codex Mendoza; Lienzo de Tlaxcala). Moctezuma's headdress (Weltmuseum, Vienna) by Richard Mortel (CC BY 2.0); Templo Mayor ruins by Simon Burchell (CC BY-SA 4.0); Mexico City Zócalo (CC0). #Aztecs #History #Tenochtitlan #Mexico #WorldInStories #Documentary 🌍 World in Stories — real stories that feel like fiction. 🌐 More stories: https://worldinstories.com/en ▶️ Subscribe:    / @worldinstoriesen