indigeneity and nationality are two different concepts that have nothing to do with each other.
this can range from indigenous Oaxacans who are US citizens to Mexican citizens who are settlers who murder indigenous people in Mexico to steal their land.
there was never a Aztec people that was the name someone made up. The Mexica people are the ones you are talking about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztecs
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.
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.
Mexico didn’t exist back then. Europeans hadn’t conquered and genocided and created states in the Americas.
This was native (indigenous) americans.
Mexicans are native
indigeneity and nationality are two different concepts that have nothing to do with each other.
this can range from indigenous Oaxacans who are US citizens to Mexican citizens who are settlers who murder indigenous people in Mexico to steal their land.
Mexico is a settler colonial state created by Spanish genociders.
The Mexican ruling class is still largely of european descent. It’s well established that lighter skin correlates with status in Mexico.
What did the natives call the region in their language?
Well before Mexico, it was the Aztecs and they called their land Aztlán, Mexico is probably some bastardized name from Nahuatl
there was never a Aztec people that was the name someone made up. The Mexica people are the ones you are talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztecs
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
No, the people literally called themselves Mexica, they chose to call them Aztecs because they thought it would confuse the people.
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.
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.
Theres no such thing as Aztecs. Its Mexicas at best, but there existed several heterogenous cultures in the region, like the Olmecs.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Mexico