
As a Catholic/Muslim state, you must take out these invaders, no matter what the cost. With it comes diseases, conversions and conquest of the Western World. In-game, they are the equivalent of the Mongols to Western Europe, arriving in the 1350s with a large fleet and a massive army to conquer the known world. The empire spanned the entire Mexican Central Plateau, also known as the Mexican High Plain, and even today the extent of their influence can still be felt in the entire region, permeating many aspects of modern culture, specially in central Mexico. The city of Tenochtitlan, de facto capital city of the Empire and one of the world's largest cities over the course of its history, was a finely planned metropolis built over Mexicoh Island, on the once great lake Texcoco, the place of today's Mexico City.


The Mexica or the Aztecs, as they are popularly known, are an agglomeration of ethnic groups that formed the largest empire in Mesoamerica, known as Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, or Triple Alliance, at its core consisting of the allied city-states of Texcoco, Tlacopan, and Mexico-Tenochtitlan, and centered on the latter.
