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Aztec warfare

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Aztec warfare concerns the aspects associated with the militaristic conventions, forces, weaponry and strategic expansions conducted by the Late Postclassic Aztec civilizations of Mesoamerica, including particularly the military history of the Aztec Triple Alliance involving the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, Tlacopan and other allied polities of the central Mexican region. [1]

109 relations: Agave, Ahuitzotl, Altepetl, Arrow, Astronomy, Atlixco, Aztec Empire, Aztec religion, Aztec society, Aztecs, Baseball bat, Blowgun, Bow and arrow, Bronze, Buddleja cordata, Calmecac, Calpulli, Chīmalli, Chert, Cholula (Mesoamerican site), City-state, Club (weapon), Conch, Crónica X, Cricket bat, Dagger, Dart (missile), Diego Durán, Eagle warrior, Fletching, Flint, Flower war, Furcraea, Howler monkey, Huastec civilization, Huitzilopochtli, Human sacrifice in Aztec culture, Ichcahuipilli, Jaguar warrior, Macana, Mace (bludgeon), Macehualtin, Macuahuitl, Malinalco, Matlatzinca, Maya warfare, Mazahua people, Mesoamerica, Mesoamerican chronology, Metaphor, ..., Military, Military history, Moctezuma I, Muisca warfare, Narrative of Some Things of New Spain and of the Great City of Temestitan, Obsidian use in Mesoamerica, Opochtli, Otomi, Oxford University Press, Pipiltin, Pochteca, Poetry, Polity, Quauholōlli, Quetzalcoatl, Quiver, Rhetoric, Sashimono, Sling (weapon), Social mobility, Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, Spear, Spear-thrower, Taíno language, Tarascan state, Tēlpochcalli, Tecpatl, Temalacatl, Tendon, Tenochtitlan, Teotihuacan, Teponaztli, Tepoztecatl, Tepoztopilli, Tequistlatecan languages, Texcoco (altepetl), Tezcatlipoca, Tilmàtli, Tizoc, Tlacaelel, Tlacateccatl, Tlacochcalcatl, Tlacopan, Tlahuicole, Tlamemeh, Tlatoani, Tlaxcala (Nahua state), Tlaximaltepoztli, Toluca, Tomahawk, Tonalpohualli, Tonatiuh, Tree frog, Turkey (bird), Tzilacatzin, University of California Press, University of Oklahoma Press, Weapon, Xiuhtecuhtli. Expand index (59 more) »

Agave

Agave is a genus of monocots native to the hot and arid regions of Mexico and the Southwestern United States.

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Ahuitzotl

Ahuitzotl (āhuitzotl) was the eighth Aztec ruler, the Hueyi Tlatoani of the city of Tenochtitlan, son of princess Atotoztli II.

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Altepetl

The altepetl or, in pre-Columbian and Spanish conquest-era Aztec society, was the local, ethnically-based political entity, usually translated into English as "city-state".

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Arrow

An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile that is launched via a bow, and usually consists of a long straight stiff shaft with stabilizers called fletchings, as well as a weighty (and usually sharp and pointed) arrowhead attached to the front end, and a slot at the rear end called nock for engaging bowstring.

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Astronomy

Astronomy (from ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena.

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Atlixco

Atlixco (is a city and a municipality in the Mexican state of Puebla. It is a regional industrial and commercial center but economically it is much better known for its production of ornamental plants and cut flowers. The city was founded early in the colonial period, originally under the jurisdiction of Huejotzingo, but eventually separated to become an independent municipality. The municipality has a number of notable cultural events, the most important of which is the El Huey Atlixcayotl, a modern adaptation of an old indigenous celebration. This event brings anywhere from 800 to 1,500 participants from all over the state of Puebla to create music, dance and other cultural and artistic performances.

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Aztec Empire

The Aztec Empire, or the Triple Alliance (Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān, ˈjéːʃkaːn̥ t͡ɬaʔtoːˈlóːjaːn̥), began as an alliance of three Nahua altepetl city-states: italic, italic, and italic.

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Aztec religion

The Aztec religion is the Mesoamerican religion of the Aztecs.

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Aztec society

Pre-Columbian Aztec society was a highly complex and stratified society that developed among the Aztecs of central Mexico in the centuries prior to the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and which was built on the cultural foundations of the larger region of Mesoamerica.

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Aztecs

The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.

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Baseball bat

A baseball bat is a smooth wooden or metal club used in the sport of baseball to hit the ball after it is thrown by the pitcher.

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Blowgun

A blowgun (also called a blowpipe or blow tube) is a simple ranged weapon consisting of a long narrow tube for shooting light projectiles such as darts.

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Bow and arrow

The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows).

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Bronze

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12% tin and often with the addition of other metals (such as aluminium, manganese, nickel or zinc) and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon.

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Buddleja cordata

Buddleja cordata is endemic to Mexico, growing along forest edges and water courses at elevations of 1500–3000 m; it has also naturalized in parts of Ethiopia.

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Calmecac

The Calmecac ("the house of the lineage") was a school for the sons of Aztec nobility (pīpiltin) in the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerican history, where they would receive rigorous religious and military training.

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Calpulli

In precolumbian Aztec society, a calpulli (from Classical Nahuatl calpōlli,, meaning "large house") was the designation of an organizational unit below the level of the altepetl "city-state".

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Chīmalli

The Chimalli (from Nahuatl:Shield) was the traditional defensive armament of the indigenous tribes of Mexico.

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Chert

Chert is a fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline silica, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).

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Cholula (Mesoamerican site)

Cholula (Cholōllān) (Spanish) was an important city of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, dating back to at least the 2nd century BCE, with settlement as a village going back at least some thousand years earlier.

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City-state

A city-state is a sovereign state, also described as a type of small independent country, that usually consists of a single city and its dependent territories.

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Club (weapon)

A club (also known as a cudgel, baton, truncheon, cosh, nightstick, beating stick, or bludgeon) is among the simplest of all weapons: a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon since prehistoric times.

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Conch

Conch is a common name that is applied to a number of different medium to large-sized shells.

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Crónica X

"Crónica X" is the name given by Mesoamerican researchers to a postulated primary-source early 16th century historical work on the traditional history of the Aztec and other central Mexican peoples, which some researchers theorize formed the basis for several other extant 16th century documents.

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Cricket bat

A cricket bat is a specialised piece of equipment used by batsmen in the sport of cricket to hit the ball, typically consisting of a cane handle attached to a flat-fronted willow-wood blade.

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Dagger

A dagger is a knife with a very sharp point and one or two sharp edges, typically designed or capable of being used as a thrusting or stabbing weapon.

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Dart (missile)

Darts are missile weapons, designed to fly such that a sharp, often weighted point will strike first.

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Diego Durán

Diego Durán (c. 1537 – 1588) was a Dominican friar best known for his authorship of one of the earliest Western books on the history and culture of the Aztecs, The History of the Indies of New Spain, a book that was much criticised in his lifetime for helping the "heathen" maintain their culture.

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Eagle warrior

Eagle warriors or eagle knights (Classical Nahuatl: cuāuhtli (singular) or cuāuhmeh (plural)Nahuatl Dictionary. (1997). Wired Humanities Project. University of Oregon. Retrieved September 5, 2012, from) were a special class of infantry soldier in the Aztec army, one of the two leading military special forces orders in Aztec society.

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Fletching

Fletching is the fin-shaped aerodynamic stabilization device attached on arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, typically made from light, semi-flexible materials such as feathers.

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Flint

Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert.

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Flower war

A flower war or flowery war (xōchiyāōyōtl, guerra florida) was a ritual war fought intermittently between the Aztec Triple Alliance and its enemies from the "mid-1450s to the arrival of the Spaniards in 1519." Enemies included the city-states of Tlaxcala, Huejotzingo, and Cholula in the Tlaxcala-Pueblan Valley in central Mexico.

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Furcraea

Furcraea is a genus of succulent plants belonging to the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae, native to tropical regions of Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and northern South America.

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Howler monkey

Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta monotypic in subfamily Alouattinae) are among the largest of the New World monkeys.

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Huastec civilization

The Huastec civilization (sometimes spelled Huaxtec or Wastek) was a pre-Columbian civilization of Mesoamerica, occupying a territory on the Gulf coast of Mexico that included the northern portion of Veracruz state, and neighbouring regions of the states of Hidalgo, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas.

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Huitzilopochtli

In the Aztec religion, Huitzilopochtli (wiːt͡siloːˈpoːt͡ʃt͡ɬi) is a Mesoamerican deity of war, sun, human sacrifice and the patron of the city of Tenochtitlan.

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Human sacrifice in Aztec culture

Human sacrifice was common to many parts of Mesoamerica.

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Ichcahuipilli

The ichcahuipilli (from Nahuatl: ichcatl, cotton, and huīpīlli, shirt)(known in Spanish as "Escaupil") was a Mesoamerican military armor, similar to the European gambeson, and was commonly used by the Aztecs and the Tlaxcalans.

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Jaguar warrior

Jaguar warriors or jaguar knights, ocēlōtl (singular) or ocēlōmeh (plural)Nahuatl Dictionary. (1997).

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Macana

The term macana, of Taíno origin, refers to various wooden weapons used by the various native cultures of Central and South America.

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Mace (bludgeon)

A mace is a blunt weapon, a type of club or virge that uses a heavy head on the end of a handle to deliver powerful blows.

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Macehualtin

The mācēhualtin (IPA:, singular mācēhualli) were the commoner social class in the Mexica Empire, commonly referred to as the Aztec Empire.

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Macuahuitl

A macuahuitl is a wooden club with obsidian blades.

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Malinalco

Malinalco (Malinalco.ogg) is the municipality inside of Ixtapan Region, is a town and municipality located 65 kilometers south of the city of Toluca in the south of the western portion of the State of Mexico.

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Matlatzinca

Matlatzinca is a name used to refer to different indigenous ethnic groups in the Toluca Valley in the state of México, located in the central highlands of Mexico.

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Maya warfare

Although the Maya were once thought to have been peaceful (see below), current theories emphasize the role of inter-polity warfare as a factor in the development and perpetuation of Maya society.

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Mazahua people

The Mazahuas are an indigenous people of Mexico, primarily inhabiting the northwestern portion of the State of Mexico and small parts of Michoacán and Querétaro.

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Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica is an important historical region and cultural area in the Americas, extending from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, and within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Mesoamerican chronology

Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation–3500 BCE), the Archaic (before 2600 BCE), the Preclassic or Formative (2000 BCE–250 CE), the Classic (250–900CE), and the Postclassic (900–1521 CE), Colonial (1521–1821), and Postcolonial (1821–present).

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Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect.

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Military

A military or armed force is a professional organization formally authorized by a sovereign state to use lethal or deadly force and weapons to support the interests of the state.

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Military history

Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing local and international relationships.

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Moctezuma I

Moctezuma I (c. 1398-1469), also known as Motecuhzomatzin Ilhuicamina, Huehuemotecuhzoma or Montezuma I (Motēuczōma Ilhuicamīna, Huēhuemotēuczōma), was the second Aztec emperor and fifth king of Tenochtitlan.

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Muisca warfare

This article describes the warfare of the Muisca.

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Narrative of Some Things of New Spain and of the Great City of Temestitan

The Narrative of Some Things of New Spain and of the Great City of Temestitan is one of the sources for the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire dating from the 16th century, one of the many surviving contemporary Spanish accounts from the period of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and central Mexico (1519–1521).

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Obsidian use in Mesoamerica

Obsidian is a naturally formed volcanic glass that was an important part of the material culture of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

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Opochtli

In Aztec mythology, Opochtli was a god of hunting and fishing.

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Otomi

The Otomi (Otomí) are an indigenous people of Mexico inhabiting the central Mexican Plateau (Altiplano) region.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Pipiltin

The Pipiltzin (sg. pilli) were the noble social class in the Mexica Empire.

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Pochteca

Pochteca (singular pochtecatl) were professional, long-distance traveling merchants in the Aztec Empire.

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Poetry

Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

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Polity

A polity is any kind of political entity.

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Quauholōlli

The Quauholōlli was a blunt weapon used by Mesoamerican peoples.

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Quetzalcoatl

Quetzalcoatl (ket͡saɬˈkowaːt͡ɬ, in honorific form: Quetzalcohuātzin) forms part of Mesoamerican literature and is a deity whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and means "feathered serpent" or "Quetzal-feathered Serpent".

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Quiver

A quiver is a container for holding arrows, bolts, or darts.

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, wherein a writer or speaker strives to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.

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Sashimono

Sashimono (指物, 差物, 挿物) were small banners historically worn by soldiers in feudal Japan, for identification during battles.

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Sling (weapon)

A sling is a projectile weapon typically used to throw a blunt projectile such as a stone, clay, or lead "sling-bullet".

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Social mobility

Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society.

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Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire

The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, or the Spanish–Aztec War (1519–21), was the conquest of the Aztec Empire by the Spanish Empire within the context of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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Spear

A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.

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Spear-thrower

A spear-thrower or atlatl (or; ahtlatl) is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in dart-throwing, and includes a bearing surface which allows the user to store energy during the throw.

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Taíno language

Taíno is an extinct and poorly-attested Arawakan language that was spoken by the Taíno people of the Caribbean.

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Tarascan state

The Tarascan state was a state in pre-Columbian Mexico, roughly covering the geographic area of the present-day Mexican state of Michoacán, parts of Jalisco, and Guanajuato.

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Tēlpochcalli

Tēlpochcalli (Nahuatl: house of the young men), were centers where Aztec youth were educated, from age 15, to serve their community and for war.

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Tecpatl

In the Aztec culture, a tecpatl was a flint or obsidian knife with a lanceolate figure and double-edged blade, with elongated ends.

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Temalacatl

A temalacatl was a gladiatorial platform that is believed was used by the different civilizations of Mesoamerica, consisting of a large stone disc with a handle in the center where the prisoner was tied for further gladiatorial combat.

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Tendon

A tendon or sinew is a tough band of fibrous connective tissue that usually connects muscle to bone and is capable of withstanding tension.

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Tenochtitlan

Tenochtitlan (Tenochtitlan), originally known as México-Tenochtitlán (meːˈʃíʔ.ko te.noːt͡ʃ.ˈtí.t͡ɬan), was a large Mexica city-state in what is now the center of Mexico City.

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Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan, (in Spanish: Teotihuacán), is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, located in the State of Mexico northeast of modern-day Mexico City, known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas.

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Teponaztli

A teponaztli is a type of slit drum used in central Mexico by the Aztecs and related cultures.

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Tepoztecatl

In Aztec mythology, Tepoztecatl (from tepoztli "workable metal" and tēcatl "person") or Tezcatzontecatl (from tēzcatl "mirror", tzontli "four hundred" and tēcatl "person") was the god of pulque, of drunkenness and fertility.

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Tepoztopilli

The tepoztopilli was a common front-line weapon of the Aztec military.

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Tequistlatecan languages

The Tequistlatecan languages, also called Chontal of Oaxaca, are three close but distinct languages spoken or once spoken by the Chontal people of Oaxaca State, Mexico.

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Texcoco (altepetl)

Texcoco (Classical Nahuatl: Tetzco(h)co) was a major Acolhua altepetl (city-state) in the central Mexican plateau region of Mesoamerica during the Late Postclassic period of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology.

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Tezcatlipoca

Tezcatlipoca (Tezcatlipōca) was a central deity in Aztec religion, and his main festival was the Toxcatl ceremony celebrated in the month of May.

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Tilmàtli

A tilmàtli (or tilma) was a type of outer garment worn by men, documented from the late Postclassic and early Colonial eras among the Aztec and other peoples of central Mexico.

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Tizoc

Tizocic or Tizocicatzin usually known in English as Tizoc, was the seventh tlatoani of Tenochtitlan.

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Tlacaelel

Tlacaelel I (1397 – 1487) was the principal architect of the Aztec Triple Alliance and hence the Mexica (Aztec) empire.

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Tlacateccatl

In the Aztec military, tlacateccatl was a title roughly equivalent to general.

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Tlacochcalcatl

Tlacochcalcatl ("The man from the house of darts") was an Aztec military title or rank; roughly equivalent to the modern title of General.

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Tlacopan

Tlacopan (meaning "florid plant on flat ground"), also called Tacuba, was a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city-state situated on the western shore of Lake Texcoco on the site of today's neighborhood of Tacuba in Mexico City.

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Tlahuicole

Tlahuicole or Tlahuicolli (1497–1518) was a Tlaxcaltec warrior noted for his skill and ethical standards.

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Tlamemeh

Tlamemeh is a word that comes from the Nahuatl tlamama, meaning load.

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Tlatoani

Tlatoani (tlahtoāni, "one who speaks, ruler"; plural tlahtohqueh or tlatoque), is the Classical Nahuatl term for the ruler of an āltepētl, a pre-Hispanic state.

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Tlaxcala (Nahua state)

Tlaxcala ("place of maize tortillas") was a pre-Columbian city and state in central Mexico.

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Tlaximaltepoztli

The tlaximaltepoztli (tlāximaltepōztli; in Nahuatl, tlaximal.

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Toluca

Toluca, officially called Toluca de Lerdo, is the state capital of the State of Mexico as well as the seat of the Municipality of Toluca.

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Tomahawk

A tomahawk is a type of single-handed ax from North America, traditionally resembling a hatchet with a straight shaft.

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Tonalpohualli

The tonalpohualli, meaning "count of days" in Nahuatl, is an Aztec version of the 260-day calendar in use in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

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Tonatiuh

In Aztec mythology, Tonatiuh (Nahuatl: Ōllin Tōnatiuh "Movement of the Sun") was the sun god.

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Tree frog

A tree frog is any species of frog that spends a major portion of its lifespan in trees, known as an arboreal state.

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Turkey (bird)

The turkey is a large bird in the genus Meleagris, which is native to the Americas.

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Tzilacatzin

Tzilacatzin was a Tlatelolca warrior.

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University of California Press

University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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University of Oklahoma Press

The University of Oklahoma Press (OU Press) is the publishing arm of the University of Oklahoma.

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Weapon

A weapon, arm or armament is any device used with intent to inflict damage or harm.

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Xiuhtecuhtli

In Aztec mythology, Xiuhtecuhtli ("Turquoise Lord" or "Lord of Fire"), was the god of fire, day and heat.

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References

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