- Acolhua
The Acolhua are a
Mesoamerica n people who arrived in theValley of Mexico in or around the year 1200 CE. [Smith (1984, p.171), who arrives at this date by averaging six dates mentioned in early codices.] The Acolhua were a sister culture of theAztecs (or Mexica) as well as theTepanec ,Chalca ,Xochimilca and others.It is likely that the ruling family of the Acolhua were descended from Otomi speakers and did not speak
Nahuatl until decreed by their ruler ("tlatoani ")Techotlalatzin . [Davies (1980, p.129); Smith (1984, p.170).]Under Techotlalatzin's grandson,
Nezahualcoyotl , the Acolhua allied with the Mexica (Aztecs) in theAztec Triple Alliance . The Acolhua capital,Texcoco , became a cultural center of the resultant Aztec Empire.Footnotes
References
: cite book |author=aut|Davies, Nigel |year=1980 |title=The Toltec Heritage: From the Fall of Tula to the Rise of Tenochtitlan (Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol. 153) |location=Norman |publisher=
University of Oklahoma Press |isbn=0-8061-1505-X |oclc=5103377 : cite journal |author=aut|Smith, Michael E. |authorlink=Michael E. Smith |year=1984 |title=The Aztlan Migrations of Nahuatl Chronicles: Myth or History? |url=http://www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/1-CompleteSet/MES-84-Aztlan.pdf |format=PDF online reproduction |journal=Ethnohistory |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=pp.153–186 |location=Durham, NC |publisher=Duke University Press , American Society for Ethnohistory|issn=0014-1801 |oclc=145142543 |doi=10.2307/482619
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