The Aztec Indians, who are known for their domination of southern and central Mexico, ruled between the 14th and 16th centuries. They built a great empire and developed very modernized ways of doing things. They had phenomenal architectural skills and waterway systems. The Aztec Indians also had very developed social class and government systems and practiced a form of religion. In addition they were a very wealthy peoples, with many of their possessions made of gold and/or other exotic metals.
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But greatness always has a beginning. Of course, it has to start somewhere.
It is said that the Aztec Priest Quauhcoatl prophesized what it would take for the Aztec to achieve greatness. .
"You have seen all that there is there down in the reeds.but listen; there is still another thing that you have not seen. Go at once and seek the tenochtli catcus upon which an eagle enjoys its prey. It is there that we shall fix ourselves, it is there that we shall rule, and it is there that we shall wait. We shall meet various tribes, and that, with our arrows and shields, we shall overthrow them. Our city of Tenochtitlan shall be there, there where the eagle cries, spreads his wings, and eats, there where swims the fish and there where the serpent is devoured, Tenochtitlan, it is there where many things shall occur." .
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Following this prophecy a great battle ensued between the Aztec and the surrounding tribes. The Aztecs won this immense battle and thus, was born the Aztec empire. .
A well known legacy the Aztecs left behind were sculptures. And not the well known sculptures such as pottery or whatnot, but massive heads, carved of basalt rock.
These boulders, were dragged from Tuxtla (a mountain range 80 miles from where these "heads" now reside) and carved on the spot where the sit to this day. These giant boulders; weighing in around forty-tons average, weren't brought to their current position by the mean most often thought.