• MadBigote@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        Theres no such thing as Aztecs. Its Mexicas at best, but there existed several heterogenous cultures in the region, like the Olmecs.

        • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          Someone has made up every name for every thing

          You put “Mexica” in English… someone made that up, too. chaos everywhere what will we do

          • HorreC@lemmy.world
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            16 hours ago

            No, the people literally called themselves Mexica, they chose to call them Aztecs because they thought it would confuse the people.

            • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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              9 hours ago

              No, they didn’t call themselves “Mexica”.

              They didn’t use the letters “M”, “e”, “x”, “i”, “c”, or even “a”.

              Regardless, the term “Mexica” and all of those English letters were made up by someone. Not a single one of those words or letters existed independent of whomever made them up.

              • HorreC@lemmy.world
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                3 hours ago

                if you would have read the artical that I liked you could indeed see they called themselves Mexica (even if I must use these letters to represent the sounds). They never used the work Aztecs, its just a dumbing down for people, which seems it was needed, but still whitewashing.

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      1 day ago

      I don’t know where exactly maize was cultivated, but Mexico comes from city Mexico-Tenochtitlan.

      They found millenia old traces of maize in the valley of the Rio Balsa in Xihuatoxtla and also in the valley of Tehuacán.

      Something about Coxcatlán phase. Couldn’t find a name of a people who would have been responsible for the domestication.

      It’s easiest to say it happened in Mesoamerica.