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Mexica and people
Tenochtitlan was the capital city of the Aztec civilization, consisting of the Mexica people, founded in 1325.
Retrieved August 30, 2012, form mean " people from Aztlan ", a mythological place for the Nahuatl-speaking culture of the time, and later adopted as the word to define the Mexica people.
Often the term " Aztec " refers exclusively to the Mexica people of Tenochtitlan ( now the location of Mexico City ), situated on an island in Lake Texcoco, who referred to themselves as Mexica Tenochca or Cōlhuah Mexica.
In 1810 Alexander von Humboldt originated the modern usage of " Aztec " as a collective term applied to all the people linked by trade, custom, religion, and language to the Mexica state and the Triple Alliance.
One Mexica myth states that the people of Cholula, called Chololtecs, were descended from one of the seven Aztec tribes that migrated to central Mexico from their mythical homeland Aztlan.
Another version of the story has Malinalxóchil as the leader of a dissident Mexica tribe, who left to settle in what is now Malinalco and intermarried with the people already there.
The Mexica fought these lords and lost, retreating to a place called Acocolco and hid in the marshes, becoming subjects of a people named the Colhuas.
We know, for example, that the activities that were to dominate the novices of priests among the Mexica was the memorization of lyrical works or mythology of their people.
The Mexica were a pre-Columbian people of central Mexico.
The smallpox epidemic caused not only infection to the Mexica peoples, but it weakened able bodied people who could no longer grow and harvest their crops, which in turn led to mass famine and death from malnutrition.
According to tradition, the Templo Mayor is located on the exact spot where the god Huitzilopochtli gave the Mexica people his sign that they had reached the promised land: an eagle on a nopal cactus with a snake in its mouth.
The Mexica, one of the Aztec groups, were one of the first people in the world to have mandatory education for nearly all children, regardless of gender, rank, or station.
It has variously been used to refer to the Triple Alliance empire, the Nahuatl-speaking people of central Mexico prior the Spanish conquest, or the Mexica ethnicity specifically.
He thereafter rewrote the history of the Aztec people, placing the Mexica in a more central role.

Mexica and arrived
Around this time the Mexica tribe arrived in central Mexico.

Mexica and Valley
The Mexica were one of the last of the Nahuatl-speaking peoples who migrated to this part of the Valley of Mexico after the fall of the Toltec Empire.
Their presence was resisted ; however, taking advantage of the nearly-constant conflict among the city-states along the lakeshores, the Mexica were able-volatile political situation, they conquered the Valley of Mexico, exacting tribute from the same powers that resisted their migration in the first place.
According to a traditional story, the Mexica wandered in the deserts of modern Mexico for 100 years before they came to the thick forests of the place now called the Valley of Mexico.

Mexica and Mexico
When used about ethnic groups the term " Aztec " refers to several Nahuatl speaking peoples of central Mexico in the postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology, especially the ethnic group that had a leading role in establishing the hegemonic empire based at Tenochtitlan, the Mexica.
The city now known as Mexico City was founded by the Mexica, also called the Aztecs, in 1325.
Blood relationships between rulers were an important aspect of politics in 14th century Mexico, and as relative newcomers, the Mexica were at a disadvantage.
Coyoacán, Mexico: Fondo Editorial de la Plastica Mexica.
The Mexica were the last of the Aztlan migrants to arrive in Central Mexico.

Mexica and AD
The Mexica interpreted this as a sign from their god and founded their new city, Tenochtitlan, on this island in the year 2 House ( 1325 AD ).

Mexica and .
He was responsible for much of the expansion of the Mexica domain, and consolidated the empire's power after emulating his predecessor.
It is the second game in the Mask Trilogy, following Tikal and followed by Mexica.
Anthony Pagden and Eulalia Guzmán ( Relaciones de Hernán Cortés 1958: 279 ) have pointed the Biblical messages that Cortés seems to ascribe to Moctezuma's retelling of the legend of Quetzalcoatl as a vengeful Messiah who would return to rule over the Mexica.
* March 13 – Recognized date for the founding of Tenochtitlan on a small island in Lake Texcoco by the Mexica empire at the dawn of the day.
They represented the most populous zone between the Mexica and Inca empires.
The former is conquest of the campaign, led by Hernán Cortés from 1519 – 21 and his Tlaxcala and other ' indigenous peoples ' allied against the Mexica / Aztec empire.
In the myth the ancestors of the Mexica / Aztec came from a place in the north called Aztlan, the last of seven nahuatlacas ( Nahuatl-speaking tribes, from tlaca, " man ") to make the journey southward, hence their name " Azteca.
The Mexica / Aztec were said to be guided by their god Huitzilopochtli, meaning " Left-handed Hummingbird " or " Hummingbird from the South.
In other contexts, Aztec may refer to all the various city states and their peoples, who shared large parts of their ethnic history and cultural traits with the Mexica, Acolhua and Tepanecs, and who often also used the Nahuatl language as a lingua franca.
Cultural traits particular to the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan was the veneration of the Mexica patron God Huitzilopochtli, the construction of twin pyramids, and the ceramic ware known as Aztec I to III.
Soon Texcoco and Tlacopan became junior partners in the alliance which was de-facto led by the Mexica of Tenochtitlan.
According to their legends, the Mexica tribe place of origin was Aztlán.
For the next 50 years, until 1427, the Mexica were a tributary of Azcapotzalco, which had become a regional power, perhaps the most powerful since the Toltecs, centuries earlier.
Maxtla, son of Tezozomoc, assassinated Chimalpopoca, the Mexica ruler.
The Mexica made reference to at least two manifestations of the supernatural: tēōtl and tēixiptla.
The Mexica " gods " themselves had no existence as distinct entities apart from these tēixiptla representations of tēōtl.

people and arrived
When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.
When the Israelites, led by Joshua toward the Promised Land, arrived at the banks of the River Jordan, the Ark was carried in the lead preceding the people and was the signal for their advance ( Joshua 3: 3, 6 ).
The events described in the poem take place in the late 5th century, after the Anglo-Saxons had begun their migration to England, and before the beginning of the 7th century, a time when the Anglo-Saxon people were either newly arrived or still in close contact with their Germanic kinsmen in Scandinavia and Northern Germany.
The site of today's City of Berkeley was the territory of the Chochenyo / Huchiun band of the Ohlone people when the first Europeans arrived.
The first people of European descent ( most of whom were born in America, and many of whom were of mixed ancestry ) arrived with the De Anza Expedition in 1776.
As news rolled in from town to town and correspondence arrived from overseas, reports of horrific stories of suffering and loss due to smallpox stirred mass panic among the people.
Evidence for the fire hypothesis is the sudden increase in widespread ash deposits at the time that people arrived in Australia, as well as land-management and hunting practices of modern Aboriginal people as recorded by the earliest European settlers before Aboriginal society was devastated by European contact and disease.
The first settlers are believed to have arrived here from North Africa-the word Mahorero ( Majorero ) or Maho is still used today to describe the people of Fuerteventura and comes from the ancient word ' mahos ' meaning a type of goatskin shoe worn by the original inhabitants.
The White Paper of 1939, stated that with over 450, 000 Jews having now arrived in Palestine, the Balfour Declaration aim of " a national home for the Jewish people " had been achieved.
A people called the Aryans from Central Asia arrived to Afghanistan after the 20th century BC, who left their languages that survived in the form of Pashto and Dari.
The Bemba people of northern Zambia were descended from Luba migrants who arrived in Zambia during the 17th century.
In 1834, the Ndebele people arrived while fleeing from the Zulu leader Shaka, making the area their new empire, Matabeleland.
Afterward, more people arrived in Britain from " the three powers of Germany ; the Old Saxons, the Angles, and the Jutes ".
Some of the Irish counties from which these people arrived were County Kerry ( Dingle Peninsula ), County Cork, and County Roscommon, along with others.
Ontario has over 2 million people of Irish descent, who in greater numbers arrived in the 1820s and the decades that followed to work on colonial infrastructure and to settle land tracts in Upper Canada, the result today is a countryside speckled with the place names of Ireland.
Austronesian people, who form the majority of the modern population, are thought to have originally been from Taiwan and arrived in Indonesia around 2000 BCE.
Sullivan III, however, argued that the custom originated among the Welsh people themselves, since the custom was known in Wales prior to the 1700s when he believed Gypsies arrived there.
The Brahui people arrived in the Qalat area nearly same time as the Balochi speaking tribes arrived from the west.
The first people arrived on the territory of modern Lithuania in the 10th millennium BC after the glaciers had retreated and the last glacial period had ended.
The departing people were led by the brothers Ybor and Aio and their mother Gambara and arrived in the lands of Scoringa, perhaps the Baltic coast or the Bardengau on the banks of the Elbe.
LTTE's people smuggling ships included MV Ocean Lady, which appeared in October 2009 off Canada's British Columbia coast with 76 Tamil asylum seekers ; MV Sun Sea, arrived in August 2010 off British Columbia, with 492 asylum seekers and MV Alicia, carrying 80 illegal immigrants, but was intercepted by Indonesian authorities in July 2011, allegedly heading towards Canada or New Zealand.
The oral histories of the Merina people, who may have arrived in the central highlands between 400 and 1000 years ago, describe encountering an established population they called the Vazimba.
In the 19th century, the Angoni or Ngoni people and their chief Zwangendaba arrived from the Natal region of modern day South Africa.

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