FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS THE OLMECS TO CORTES
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Mexica
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Maya
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Texcoco
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Olmec
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Detailed explanation-1: -Realms of the Sacred in Daily Life: Early Written Records of Mesoamerica. The people whom we typically refer to as Aztecs called themselves Mexica or Culhua-Mexica. They were also known as the Tenochca, a name derived from the ancestor Tenoch.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Aztecs referred to themselves as Culhua-Mexica, to link themselves with Colhuacán, the centre of the most-civilized people of the Valley of Mexico. See alsopre-Columbian civilizations: Aztec culture to the time of the Spanish conquest.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Mexica or Mexicas-called Aztecs in occidental historiography, although this term is not limited to the Mexica-were an indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico, known today as the rulers of the Aztec empire.