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Mexican Terracotta Group, Pre-Columbian, from a grave, Aztec culture, 1300-1521. Aztec culture, also known as Mexica, was a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521, during the time in which a triple alliance of the Mexica, Texcoca and Tepaneca tribes established the Aztec empire. At British Museum