The Aztecs
Kevin Eckert
November 7, 2007
NAMS 200
The Aztecs
According to Aztec legend, the tribe originated from Aztlan, somewhere in the north of modern Mexico. At that time the Indigenous peoples, who called themselves the Mexica or Tenochca or Acolhuas, were a small, nomadic, Nahuatl-speaking concretion of peoples living on the margins of civilized Mesoamerica. Sometime in the 12th century they embarked on a period of wandering and in the 13th century settled in the central basin of México. The Mexica finally found refuge on small islands in Lake Texcoco where, in 1325, they founded the town of Tenochtitlan and would later form the triple alliance among all of the Indigenous populations . The three city-states all wanted to expand so as a result they fought one another with shifting alliances over land and control. The pre-Hispanic past was filled with wars that, like the conquest, were waged by warrior elites for control of a peasant population not directly involved2. After the......
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