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ahuitzotl culture time period main importance |
8th ruler of the Aztecs when they were the most power group in MA. His reign brought the first true representation of an aztec empire name - half dong _ half donkey creature built an aqueduct that brings water in the the city |
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altepetl |
define in terms of social relations not territory aztec city-state formed in several areas of central mexico especially around Lake texcoco in the Valley of Mexico they shared a local and regional market network |
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Aztlan |
Nahua homeland before migration to central mexico Huitzilopochtli supposedly led a group called the Mexica out of Aztlan in AD 1111, but Azlan is said to possibly be be aztlan = the land of white Herons |
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Chicomoztoc |
mythical seven caves origin place of the tootle-chichimeca and other nahuatl-speaking civilizations associated with colhuacan (curved/bent hill/mountain) one of the earliest settlements of the Tolteca-Chichimeca |
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Ensemble approach |
archeological records, literary testimony and pictorial manuscripts (a combination of xxxx and xxxx approaches) unique way of studying the Aztec because of the nature of the evidence found (not like the Maya who had a writing system we could decrypt best way to summarize; merge direct historical approach with conjunctive |
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Huitzilophochtli |
led the Mexica out of Azlan towards central mexico his transformation into the sun on Coatepec (snake Hill) is used to validate power whose? the south temple of the temple mayor is dedicated to him |
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Kasonsi |
kings, war leaders, judges, overseers of huge royal court WHERE Yakata = tomb of Kosonsi the death of a kosonsi would mean the sacrifice of 7 women from the palace as well as 40 males so they could go with him |
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Relacion de Michoacan |
1540 created to legitimize claims to ancestral lands or lands promised by the spaniards to indigenous gave us lots of details about the Tarascan civilization tells us about King Tariacuri taking over Lake Patzcuaro and creating a strong single state |
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Tarascan Civilization |
dominated Michoacan area during? differentiated themselves from common: called themselves pure (10% of population) competed with Aztecs for power |
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Tezozomoc |
ruler of Tepanec during? assigns first king to the Mexica Acamapichtli first Aztec King inflection point? |
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Tlacaelel |
served as the advisor of the Aztec ruler who helped |
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calmecac |
a late Postclassic boarding school for the sons of Aztec nobility religious and military training received here known about because of the information in the Florentine and Mendoza codez |
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Calpollis |
aztec social unit formed by networks of family units that lived together smaller than an altepetl had their own temple |
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Codez Mendoza |
aztec codex created a few years after th |
