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aztec
Title: aztec
Category: History
Details: Words: 2375 | Pages: 10.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
aztec
Aztecs
Probably from Aztatl (heron), and Tlacatl (man),"people of the heron", in the Nahuatl, or
Mexican, language of Mexico, a surname applied to the tribe of the Mexica, or Chichimeca
Mexitin (whence Mexico and Mexicans), a ramification of the Nahuatl linguistic stock which
occupied aboriginal Mexico, in more or less contiguous groups, at the beginning of the sixteenth
century, when the Spaniards first came into contact with them. The Mexica proper held only a
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…showed last 75 words of 2375 total…either plundering or levying tribute. They had no
thought of founding astate or nationality. Commerce was carried on, even with tribes that were
hostile, and it sometimes gave a welcome pretext for aggression. Of domestic quadrupeds they
had only a species of indigenous dog. Like all Indian towns, Tenochtitlan had a large central
market-place (tianquiz), the extent and resources of which have been considerably exaggerated,
as well as most other features of so-called Indian civilization.
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