• HorreC@lemmy.world
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    5日前

    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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      4日前

      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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        4日前

        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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          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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            10時間前

            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.