The Aztec homeland may have been in Arizona. Although current consensus it was still northern Mexico, but they did come from the north near the border.

That is why the Hopi of Arizona speak a language similar to the Nahuatl of the Aztec empire. link

“Authorities on the history of the language group have usually placed the Proto-Uto-Aztecan homeland in the border region between the United States and Mexico, namely the upland regions of Arizona and New Mexico and the adjacent areas of the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua, roughly corresponding to the Sonoran Desert and the western part of the Chihuahuan Desert. It would have been spoken by Mesolithic foragers in Aridoamerica, about 5,000 years ago.”

I absolutely love that the Aztecs were fascinated with Teotihuacan.

Similar claims are made today about the Inca as though they were ancient, when we know there were ancient civilizations along the Peruvian coast thousands of years prior link

Or this 3,000 year old Chinese text talking about old writings “‘What did the ancient classic "Zhou Shu(周書)" mean by the sentence that Zhong and Li caused the heaven and earth to disconnect from each other?’ “. So 3,000 years ago the Chinese were talking about ancient stuff. link

Or people being shitty tourists 2,000 years ago link

I love ancient people, and people don’t change that much.

And people still think Mexico was just Aztecs and Maya. People always forget the Zapotec and Mixtec.

Looks like the Appalachian views near me, but more jagged. Those mountains are just kids!

That’s a real place? I thought it was a fictional location in Gran Turismo. TIL!