(a.) Of or relating to one of the early races in Mexico that inhabited the great plateau of that country at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519.
(n.) One of the Aztec race or people.
Example Sentences:
(1) UPDATE: Aztec new rave Katy Perry performs onstage.
(2) The structure of the Aztec family, their problems with the excessive ingestion of alcoholic beverages, and the punishments native authorities had implemented in order to check alcoholism up are also described.
(3) Other performers on the night included award winners Goulding, Mars, Bastille and Rudimental, as well as Katy Perry, whose set resembled an Aztec scene with fluorescent dance outfits and laser beams.
(4) "I would say that period derailed many great bands: Aztec Camera, Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti, Orange Juice.
(5) For centuries they have produced vegetables and flowers, initially for the capital of the Aztec kingdom, then of New Spain and more recently the Mexican republic, all built in the same place.
(6) Classified vector quantization (CVQ) of the m-AZTEC output is next performed to exploit the correlation in the other AZTEC parameter, namely, the value-parameter.
(7) The chinampas were invented by the first settlers here, and subsequently enabled the Aztecs to extend their urban settlements.
(8) February 19, 2014 Updated at 8.36pm GMT 8.33pm GMT Here is that aforementioned Katy Perry’s aztec new rave look ... 8.32pm GMT James Corden is making jokes with One Direction about prison rape.
(9) The widely-held belief that Columbus's ship brought the disease from the New World to Europe rests on identification of the classic lesions in Inca, Aztec and Mississippian bones that date from 1,000 to 3,000 years before present.
(10) The track I always play to rescue a dancefloor The Aztec Mystic: Knights Of The Jaguar Facebook Twitter Pinterest This tune gets house and techno crowds alike on to the dancefloor.
(11) Designed by the artist himself, this haunting 1950s structure, inspired by Mayan and Aztec architecture, houses the artist's inspiring collection of pre-Hispanic Art.
(12) At times this game felt like one big callback, especially when the higher-seeded Aztecs coughed up a 14 point lead.
(13) The ceremony shown here is very faithful to the most lurid sources on the Aztec ritual.
(14) The chinampas , or floating market gardens, are unique, one of the few living reminders of the Aztec city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan , captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1521.
(15) The motivation behind Benzecry's Rituales Amerindios (American Indian Rituals) is, in the Argentinian composer's words, "my wish to write something that would represent the three great pre-Columbian Latin-American cultures - the Aztec (in Mexico), the Mayan (in Southern Mexico and Central America) and Inca (mostly in Peru)."
(16) In the Aztec culture of pre-Columbian Mexico the rules for the use of alcoholic beverages were clearly defined and strictly enforced.
(17) No chemical differences were either manifested in the Mercado and Aztec types of A. hypochondriacus, nor in the Mexican type of A. cruentus.
(18) Like the Aztecs, they pursued specific material goods, obsessively combing their empire for the thorny oyster ( spondylus princep s) revered for the deep blood-red colour of its shell.
(19) The latest accolade may be lost among the prince’s hundreds of other honours, including a knighthood of Order of the Elephant (Denmark), a Collar of the Order of the Aztec Eagle (Mexico), and a Grand Commander of the Order of Maritime Merit (the San Francisco Port Authority).
(20) Author Antonio Ortuño compared Wednesday’s event to Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés – who led the fall of the Aztec empire – meeting with the Aztec emperor Montezuma.
Conquistador
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Claire Provost She compares the companies that have moved into her area to the Spanish conquistadors who invaded America.
(2) But in the 1520s, Spanish conquistadors arrived in Yucatán, signalling the beginning of the end for Mayan civilisation.
(3) The chinampas , or floating market gardens, are unique, one of the few living reminders of the Aztec city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan , captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1521.
(4) From the Roman property scammer turned general Marcus Licinius Crassus, to the Malian king Mansa Musa (possibly the richest man in history), via Cosimo de’ Medici and the bankrolling of Renaissance Florence , to the conquistadores and the great American tycoons, the same impulses emerge.
(5) Contrary to popular belief, it was not the European guns or fierce soldiers that conquered the native Americans, but instead it was the common childhood illnesses brought from the Old World by the European conquistadors.
(6) Author Antonio Ortuño compared Wednesday’s event to Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés – who led the fall of the Aztec empire – meeting with the Aztec emperor Montezuma.
(7) You have to get off the highway to see the real Baja, across the spine of mountains and along old mule trails that go back to the conquistadors, linking oases, old ranches and Spanish missions from the 1700s.
(8) The cunning centre gave us grants for our honest labour as the conquistadors gave beads to native Americans in exchange for gold.
(9) Argentines of Italian origin outnumber Argentines of the original conquistador caste, though they never succeeded in displacing Spanish as the dominant tongue.
(10) Just 300 Spanish conquistadores under the leadership of Cortés united with the Tlaxcallans and other enemies of the Aztec empire to exploit the leader Moctezuma's political indecision to full advantage, resulting in the conquest and collapse of the Aztec state.
(11) Aside from the city centre, this southern end of town is probably the best pocket of Spanish colonial life; if I turned right at this intersection and walked east a mile or so I would come to Coyoacán, the rustic oasis where Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and even the first conquistador, Hernán Cortéz, had their homes.
(12) Some have gone as far as to liken the corporate incomers to 21st-century conquistadors.
(13) In 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and his party first beheld the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan as if floating on the shimmering waters of Lake Texcoco, in the Basin of Mexico.
(14) When Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro arrived he took advantage of the mayhem, and captured the emperor Atahualpa, despite being vastly outnumbered.