Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Pochteca

Index Pochteca

Pochteca (singular pochtecatl) were professional, long-distance traveling merchants in the Aztec Empire. [1]

34 relations: Amaranth, Americas, Arthur J. O. Anderson, Azcapotzalco, Aztec society, Aztecs, Bernardino de Sahagún, Business administration, Calpulli, Chalco (altépetl), Charles E. Dibble, Cuautitlán, Empire, Espionage, Florentine Codex, Guild, History of marketing, Huitzilopochco, Huitzilopochtli, Marketplace, Merchant, Mesoamerica, Mexica, Mixcoac, Otompan, Quetzalcoatl, Retail, Tenochtitlan, Texcoco (altepetl), Texcoco, State of Mexico, Tianguis, Tlatelolco (altepetl), Xochimilco, Yacatecuhtli.

Amaranth

Amaranthus, collectively known as amaranth, is a cosmopolitan genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants.

New!!: Pochteca and Amaranth · See more »

Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

New!!: Pochteca and Americas · See more »

Arthur J. O. Anderson

Arthur James Outram Anderson (November 26, 1907 – June 3, 1996) was an American anthropologist specializing in Aztec culture and translator of the Nahuatl language.

New!!: Pochteca and Arthur J. O. Anderson · See more »

Azcapotzalco

Azcapotzalco (Āzcapōtzalco,, from āzcapōtzalli “anthill” + -co “place”; literally, “In the place of the anthills”) is one of the 16 municipalities (municipios) into which Mexico's Mexico City is divided.

New!!: Pochteca and Azcapotzalco · See more »

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.

New!!: Pochteca and Aztec society · See more »

Aztecs

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

New!!: Pochteca and Aztecs · See more »

Bernardino de Sahagún

Bernardino de Sahagún (c. 1499 – October 23, 1590) was a Franciscan friar, missionary priest and pioneering ethnographer who participated in the Catholic evangelization of colonial New Spain (now Mexico).

New!!: Pochteca and Bernardino de Sahagún · See more »

Business administration

Business administration is management of a business.

New!!: Pochteca and Business administration · See more »

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".

New!!: Pochteca and Calpulli · See more »

Chalco (altépetl)

Chālco was a complex pre-Columbian Nahua altepetl or confederacy in central Mexico.

New!!: Pochteca and Chalco (altépetl) · See more »

Charles E. Dibble

Charles E. Dibble (18 August 1909 – 30 November 2002) was an American academic, anthropologist, linguist, and scholar of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.

New!!: Pochteca and Charles E. Dibble · See more »

Cuautitlán

Cuautitlán is a city and municipality in the State of Mexico, just north of the northern tip of the Federal District (Distrito Federal) within the Greater Mexico City urban area.

New!!: Pochteca and Cuautitlán · See more »

Empire

An empire is defined as "an aggregate of nations or people ruled over by an emperor or other powerful sovereign or government, usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British Empire, Spanish Empire, Portuguese Empire, French Empire, Persian Empire, Russian Empire, German Empire, Abbasid Empire, Umayyad Empire, Byzantine Empire, Ottoman Empire, or Roman Empire".

New!!: Pochteca and Empire · See more »

Espionage

Espionage or spying, is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information without the permission of the holder of the information.

New!!: Pochteca and Espionage · See more »

Florentine Codex

The Florentine Codex is a 16th-century ethnographic research study in Mesoamerica by the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún.

New!!: Pochteca and Florentine Codex · See more »

Guild

A guild is an association of artisans or merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular area.

New!!: Pochteca and Guild · See more »

History of marketing

The study of the history of marketing, as a discipline, is meaningful because it helps to define the baselines upon which change can be recognised and understand how the discipline evolves in response to those changes.

New!!: Pochteca and History of marketing · See more »

Huitzilopochco

Huitzilopochco (sometimes called Churubusco, and other variants) was a small pre-Columbian Nahua altepetl (city-state) in the Valley of Mexico.

New!!: Pochteca and Huitzilopochco · See more »

Huitzilopochtli

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

New!!: Pochteca and Huitzilopochtli · See more »

Marketplace

A market, or marketplace, is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods.

New!!: Pochteca and Marketplace · See more »

Merchant

A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people.

New!!: Pochteca and Merchant · See more »

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.

New!!: Pochteca and Mesoamerica · See more »

Mexica

The Mexica (Nahuatl: Mēxihcah,; the singular is Mēxihcatl Nahuatl Dictionary. (1990). Wired Humanities Project. University of Oregon. Retrieved August 29, 2012, from) or Mexicas were a Nahuatl-speaking indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico, known today as the rulers of the Aztec Empire.

New!!: Pochteca and Mexica · See more »

Mixcoac

Mixcoac is an area of southern Mexico City which used to be a separate town and municipality within the Mexican Federal District until it was made part of Mexico City proper (the Departamento Central at the time) in 1928.

New!!: Pochteca and Mixcoac · See more »

Otompan

Otompan (Nahuatl for "place of Otomis") or Otumba (the Spanish version of the name) was a pre-Columbian altepetl or city-state in the upper Teotihuacan Valley (now in Mexico).

New!!: Pochteca and Otompan · See more »

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".

New!!: Pochteca and Quetzalcoatl · See more »

Retail

Retail is the process of selling consumer goods or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit.

New!!: Pochteca and Retail · See more »

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.

New!!: Pochteca and Tenochtitlan · See more »

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.

New!!: Pochteca and Texcoco (altepetl) · See more »

Texcoco, State of Mexico

Texcoco is a city and municipality located in the State of Mexico, 25 km northeast of Mexico City.

New!!: Pochteca and Texcoco, State of Mexico · See more »

Tianguis

A tianguis is an open-air market or bazaar that is traditionally held on certain market days in a town or city neighborhood in Mexico and Central America.

New!!: Pochteca and Tianguis · See more »

Tlatelolco (altepetl)

Tlatelolco (tɬateˈloːɬko) (also called Mexico Tlatelolco) was a prehispanic altepetl or city-state, in the Valley of Mexico.

New!!: Pochteca and Tlatelolco (altepetl) · See more »

Xochimilco

Xochimilco (Xōchimīlco) is one of the 16 ''mayoralities'' (Spanish: alcaldías) or boroughs within Mexico City.

New!!: Pochteca and Xochimilco · See more »

Yacatecuhtli

In Aztec mythology, Yacatecuhtli (pronounced Ya-te-coo-tli) was the patron god of commerce and travelers, especially business travelers.

New!!: Pochteca and Yacatecuhtli · See more »

Redirects here:

Pochtecatl.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pochteca

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »