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2 days ago · Náhuatl was spoken by multiple cultures such as the Aztecs/Mexicas, Tlaxcalans, Acolhuas, and many others; today native Náhuatl speakers are now grouped as part of the Nahua culture. Due to the UA family spanning across such a large area of different biomes and elevations from pine forest, grasslands, plains, deserts, subtropical dry forest ...
1 day ago · Tlaxcala was a Nahua republic and confederation in central Mexico. The Tlaxcalans fiercely resisted Aztec expansion during the Flower Wars ever since the Aztecs expelled them from Lake Texcoco . The Tlaxcalans would later ally with the Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés as an opportunity to liberate them from the Aztecs and managed to ...
4 days ago · The Spanish campaign against the Aztec Empire had its final victory on 13 August 1521, when a coalition army of Spanish forces and native Tlaxcalan warriors led by Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured the emperor Cuauhtémoc and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire.
- Spanish-Indigenous allies victory
- Aztec Empire and other indigenous states, (modern-day Mexico)
During this ancient ritual, five men climb to the top of a very high pole. While one plays a drum and a reed-pipe on a tiny. platform at the top, the other four ‘fly’ to the ground, suspended on ropes. Each volador circles the pole 13 times before reaching the ground, making a total of 52 turns. This symbolises the 52-year cycles of the ...
5 days ago · La Llorona (usually translated into English as ‘the wailing woman’) is a legendary figure, deeply ingrained in Mexican culture, with various incarnations. She is often presented as an apparition of a woman dressed in white; found by lakes or rivers, or sometimes at crossroads. She cries into the night for her children, whom she has killed ...
If you really CAN'T get into the specific motives of each allied state (which you should: Ixtlilxochitl II of Texcoco for example was likely as critical a figure as Cortes of the Xicotencatls of Tlaxcala), the better generalization would have been ironically the opposite claim: That the hands off political system common in Mesoamerica meant ...
2 days ago · Page from the Lienzo de Tlaxcala showing the conquest of Quetzaltenango. Pedro de Alvarado and his army advanced along the Pacific coast unopposed until they reached the Samalá River in western Guatemala. This region formed a part of the Kʼicheʼ kingdom, and a Kʼicheʼ army tried unsuccessfully to prevent the Spanish from crossing the river.
