It was located in the middle of Tenochtitlan which is in the Aztec Empire. This city is in what is now Mexico City. It was constructed after 1325.
The temple was built on a particular spot because of an angle to fufill a prophecy. It was built in the 14th century in honor of the Aztec god of war and of water. It was built on swampy ground and often the temole would sink and needed to be repaired.
It was a large stone pyramid with wide staircase that can be seen throughout Mexico. The twin temples at the top of the temple was for Huiztropochi and Tlaloc. The human sacrifices took place at the top of the pyramid.
Within the temple there is a caned round stone at the lower part of the pyramid that shows the limds of the Aztec moon goddess. There are two snake heads that guard the main staircase. Within the buikding there were thousands of people that were sacrificed and their blood was to quench the thirst of the Gods.
At the time of the Spanish conquest it was the religious center for move than 300,000 Aztecs. It was almost destroyed dy the spaniards. there were parts of the temple that was discovered in Mexico city in 1978.
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