Word: azteca
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...five-mile-long column of men. Mile on mile he moved across rugged hills, over the naked brown mountains. He walked past ancient churches and haciendas, through villages with pre-Christian names-Tepoztlán, Tlalnepantla, Cuautitlán. As he drew near Mexico City he passed modern factories-Azteca Cement, Nash Motors, La Consolidida Steel-whose chimneys ribbed the blue of Mexico...
...smolder fiercely in Mexico through centuries of foreign oppression and exploitation. Mexico City was actually founded almost a century before Europeans were informed that there existed an American Continent. Long before the Pilgrim Fathers arrived to dwell in bigoted rusticity among savages, the American tribes calling themselves Mexica or Azteca had created the Mexican Empire and evolved a high and urban state of civilization, with courts of justice, a highly developed agricultural, mechanical and artistic technique, and a stone architecture which commanded the respect of the luxury-loving Spaniards when they arrived...