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    Aztec Empire (redirect from Mexica Empire)
    small tributary empire with Mexica assistance. The Mexica ruler was not recognized as a legitimate king until this point. Mexica leaders successfully petitioned...
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    exists in English translation by John Bierhorst "Why are Aztecs called Mexicas?". mexicanroutes.com. 4 November 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2023. e.g.Offner...
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    Aztec codex (redirect from Aztec Codices)
    Tejiendo destinos : un acercamiento al sistema de comunicación gráfica en los códices adivinatorios (Primera ed.). Zinacantepec, México, México. ISBN 978-607-7761-77-8...
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    Codex Boturini (category Aztec codices)
    two other Aztec codices have been influenced by the content and style of the Boturini Codex. This Codex has become an insignia of Mexica history and pilgrimage...
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    are different accounts of their origin. In the myth, the ancestors of the Mexica/Aztec came from a place in the north called Aztlan, the last of seven nahuatlacas...
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    X". Códices y documentos sobre México : segundo simposio. Salvador Rueda Smithers, Constanza Vega Sosa, Rodrigo Martínez Baracs, Simposio de Códices y Documentos...
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    The Aztec or Mexica calendar is the calendrical system used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico. It is one of the Mesoamerican...
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    representation of the sun god Huitzilopochtli, who was very important, as the Mexicas referred to themselves as the "People of the Sun". The cactus (Opuntia...
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    Anáhuac to refer to the country. This term, in Nahuatl, was used by the Mexica to refer to the territory they dominated. According to some linguists, it...
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    Codex Borbonicus (category Aztec codices)
    understanding of Mexica calendric constructions, deities, and ritual actions. The Codex Borbonicus is one of a very few Aztec codices that survived the...
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    Spranz (1975). Fondo de Cultura Económica México (ed.). Los Dioses en los Códices Mexicanos del Grupo Borgia: Una Investigación Iconográfica (in Spanish)...
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    expression of celestial starlight on earth. El sacrificio humano en los Mexicas. TECPATL: ORIGEN Y SACRIFICIO. Día 18. Tecpatl(Cuchillo). Tlacatiliztonalli...
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    his cadre from his arrival at the Mexican coast until the defeat of the Mexicas. A fictionalized version of the fall of Tenochtitlan was depicted in the...
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  • Spanish) (53): 67–75. Corral, Aurelio López (2011). "Los glifos de suelo en códices acolhua de la Colonia temprana: un reanálisis de su significado". Desacatos...
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    the Mexicas arrived in the Anahuac Valley around Lake Texcoco, they were considered by the other groups as the least civilized of all. The Mexicas decided...
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    Mixtec culture (category Mixtec codices)
    0-292-77556-3. ------- (1999). «Los fundamentos para una 'lectura lírica' de los códices». Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl, (30): 165-181. Jansen, Maarten and Pérez...
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    themselves by the name of their altepetl rather than, for instance, as "Mexicas". "Altepetl" was a polyvalent term rooting the social and political order...
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    t͡ɬi]) is a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican deity worshipped primarily by the Mexica (Aztec) people. Sometimes referred to as the "earth monster," Tlaltecuhtli's...
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    ISBN 978-0-19-533083-0. Brundage, Burr Cartwright (1972). A Rain of Darts: The Mexica Aztecs. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-77002-2. Carmack,...
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    Nahui Ollin is a concept in Aztec/Mexica cosmology with a variety of meanings. Nahui translates to "four" and Ollin translates to "movement" or "motion...
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    2019, p. 76. Ventura, Abida (31 July 2017). "Los mexicas que lucharon en la Conquista" [The Mexica who fought in the Conquest]. El Universal Querétaro...
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    Tlatelolca, were part of the Mexica, a Nahuatl-speaking people who arrived in what is now central Mexico in the 13th century. The Mexica settled on an island...
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    Concheros dance, also known as the dance of the Chichimecas, Aztecas and Mexicas, is an important traditional dance and ceremony which has been performed...
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    nation that Spanish chroniclers came to call the Pipils or Cuzcatlecos. No codices survive that shed light on this confederation except the Annals of the...
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    around the year 1200 CE. The Acolhua were a sister culture of the Aztecs (or Mexica) as well as the Tepanec, Chalca, Xochimilca and others. The most important...
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    Mesoamerica. The weapon was used by different civilisations including the Aztec (Mexicas), Olmec, Maya, Mixtec, Toltec, and Tarascans. One example of this weapon...
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    participated. This battle reportedly ended with 8200 Mexicas killed or captured. However, the Mexica are said to have dealt a similar number of casualties...
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    sending troops to conquer Huaxyacac as the Aztecs, or more correctly the Mexicas, called the area of present-day Oaxaca. Cortez, also known as the Marquessate...
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    1086/463275. ISSN 0018-2710. Navarrete Linares, Federico (2019). Las fundaciones mexicas: de Chapultépec a México. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Instituto...
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  • Codex Mexicanus (category Aztec codices)
    writing system. A family tree of the rulers of Mexico. The history of the Mexica from their departure from Aztlan. Colonial history. Two Christian scenes:...
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