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Visitor's Guide to the Aztec World. Produced by the cartographic division of National Geographic. Dated December 1980

Valley of Mexico
Seven thousand feet above sea level and walled on there sides by mountain ranges, the Valley of Mexico has provided a favorable environment for man since the Glacial epoch. Ice Age hunters stalked mammoths along the boggy margins of its lakes, now a fraction of their former extent. Later, hunters and gathers developed agriculture and settled in the first villages. As populations grew and exploited the region's rich potential, city-states developed, drawing from many sources throughout Mesoamerica in the evolution of their cultural patterns. Eventually came the Aztec people, whose military genius amassed an empire and firmly established the valley as the heart and hub of the Mexican nation.