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Why Was The Daily Life Of Télpochcalli Students Of The Aztec Empire A Challenge?

Daily Life Of Télpochcalli Students Of The Aztec Empire Was A Challenge

AncientPages.com | April 20, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Why the Aztecs migrated to the Mexican Valley can be debated, but once they reached the place it didn’t take long before they

It was Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, who named the Mexica - the Aztecs. He put together the name “Aztlan” and “tec(atl)” where Aztlan “('Place of the Herons') was the mythical homeland of the Mexica, and -teca(h) literally means ‘people of’. Today the name 'Aztec' refers to not only the Mexica but also to the Nahuatl-speaking peoples of the Valley of Mexico and its surroundings

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Why The Aztecs Called Themselves ‘Mexica’

AncientPages.com | January 13, 2018

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Originally, the tribe we all know today as Aztecs, was once known as the Mexica, from which the modern name of the country of