The Fifth Sun — Part 1: The Sun Who Cried
Long ago, in the place we now call Mexico, there lived a people called the Aztecs. They called themselves the Mexica (meh-SHEE-kah), and that is where the name Mexico comes from. They built a great city called Tenochtitlan (teh-noch-TEET-lan) on an island in the middle of a lake, with tall stone pyramids, busy markets, and gardens that floated on the water. That was about five hundred years ago, long before anyone had a phone, a car or a light bulb. The Aztec empire came to an end a very long time ago, and the way of life they knew is gone. Mexico City now stands where their great city once was. But their stories did not disappear, because people wrote them down, and that is how we can still read them today. ...