Dependent. A person whose support and maintenance is contingent upon the aid of another. Conditional. A dependent is someone who is sustained by another person, such as a child supported by his or her parents. In an insurance policy, the term legal dependent generally includes all of those people whom the insured person is under a legal duty to support, such as a spouse and minor children.
The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. They called themselves Mexica (pronounced [meËÊikaÊ]). The Republic of Mexico and its capital, Mexico City, derive their names from the word Mexica. The capital of the Aztec empire was Tenochtitlan, built on a raised island in Lake Texcoco. Modern Mexico City is built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan.
In Central Mexico, north of the YucatÃ¡n, another Mesoamerican civilization thrived. The Aztec Empire was based in the Valley of Mexico, a wide, high elevation valley in the mountains of Central Mexico. In this wide valley, the Aztecs were unified as one people, who called themselves the Mexica.