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[–] 9 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

Well before Mexico, it was the Aztecs and they called their land Aztlán, Mexico is probably some bastardized name from Nahuatl

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    No, the people literally called themselves Mexica, they chose to call them Aztecs because they thought it would confuse the people.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    I don't need to read the article you linked, because SOMEONE made up the term "Mexica", just like someone made up the term "Aztec" (and every other word ever).

    The term is not eternal, not deemed by God (or Quetzalcoatl)...

    Also there were a variety of peoples, to say "they called themselves Mexica" as if they were one people is actually dumbing it down, friend. They didn't even all speak the same language.

    Dumbing down for people, indeed. It's all over your head, and I'm sorry

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    How dare I ask you to do some small bit of research about topics that you post on, I mean why discuss them in hernest when you could just be like, nah, they dont get a voice in their own history.

    The ones you were speaking of, did speak a language (again in the article) and did trake over the region you are speaking about, but I am sure you are just used to running ramshot over others, your ancestors have been doing it for so long its one of the only hallmarks of culture you can pull from.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Aztlán was the place they said they came from (probably in today's U.S. territory). The "Aztecs" called themselves "Mexica". That's also their name in Spanish, and I have a faded memory that it is not the name in English only because an anthropologist had trouble pronouncing it or something. Whatever.

    Mexicas (meh - SHE - kahs) founded Tenochtitlan. After its fall, you are right, Mexico was named 'Mexico' from Nahuatl but people pronounced and pronounce it 'MEH - hee - koh' because of the Spanish language influence (think, as in Quixote, 'kee - HO - teh').

    There were Mexican intellectuals pushing for a 'meh - SHEE - koh' pronunciation in the 20th century, but they failed miserably.

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