Timeline The Aztec Empire and Oxford University

The Aztec Empire and Oxford University 2

• 1096 – present University of Oxford -- teaching begins The oldest university in the English-speaking world Teaching existed at Oxford in some form from 1096 and grew rapidly after 1167, when Henry II barred English students from Paris. It is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest in continuous operation anywhere. By the time the Mexica founded Tenochtitlan in 1325, Oxford had already been teaching for more than two centuries.
• 1300 – 1521 The Aztec Empire (1300–1521) The Aztec Empire -- more precisely the empire of the Mexica people and their Triple Alliance partners -- is the last and greatest of the pre-Columbian civilisations of Mesoamerica. From their mythic origins at Aztlan and their long southward migration, the Mexica arrive in the Valley of Mexico c.1250 as a despised, landless people. Within a century they found Tenochtitlan (1325) on an island in Lake Texcoco; within another century they forge the Triple Alliance (1428) that becomes the engine of imperial expansion. At their peak (c.1500-1519) the empire controls approximately 200,000 square kilometres, extracts tribute from some 400-500 city-states, and its capital Tenochtitlan -- with a population of 200,000-300,000 -- is one of the largest cities on earth. In 1519 Hernán Cortés arrives on the coast of Mexico. Two years later, Tenochtitlan is rubble and the Aztec empire is destroyed -- the most rapid collapse of a major civilisation in recorded history.