It was located near the present day city of Mexico City. It formed a confederacy with Texcoco and Tlacopán and was the Aztec capital by the late 15th century. Originally located on two small islands in Lake Texcoco, it gradually spread through the construction of artificial islands to cover more than 5 square miles. Hope this helped :))
The term that is used for the division of political authority among branches of government is called the A) separation of powers. The separation of powers seeks to create checks and balances amongst the branches of government to prevent tyrannical government from occurring.
There were many factors that allowed the Byzantine Empire to last a 1000 years after the end of the Roman Empire which include the fact that Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, was protected with walls that lasted almost the entire 1000 years, making Constantinople, and the center of the empire's economy/culture impervious to invaders.
