14 . THE MEXICAS.
The most studied and vilified culture by invaders has been the Mexica. The conquerors had to disproportionately increase the alleged atrocities and the warriors’ ability and the power of the "natives", given that it was them who defeated the Aztecs. These false stories increased the alleged heroic deeds and courage developed to defeat the "powerful mexicas". This was totally untrue, because we know that the conquest war was actually a civil war between native peoples, provoked, encouraged and directed by the spaniards, because they used the prophecies that weighed on the Aztec ruling class and their own internal contradictions. As well as the existing resistance against the Aztec by peoples under their domination. In addition to having the largest smallpox pandemic of the Anahuac history, brought by Europeans.
Then the missionaries arrived, who "investigated" the customs and religion of our ancestors in order to eradicate them, and the few that honestly tried to know them, found many limitations by the language, because 16th century Nahuatl was much richer and profound than the Spanish at the time. In fact, philosophy, religion and the sciences were generally much more advanced than the Europeans despite living at a time of cultural decadence.
There had been centuries of civilization collapse. There was a "cultural depression" in the Anahuac, which eagerly awaited the implementation of the following cycle that repeated every 52 years, with the dreaded end of the Fifth Sun. The principles and values of the Classical period slowly dissolved over time and in the material ambition of the leaders of the recently created "Lordships". These lordships were the organization forms that developed in the Postclassical period. These were not European style monarchies or kingdoms, but possessed a leadership that was not hereditary, although they came from a group of families with lineages. The Tlatócan[1] was the Supreme Council and delegated power on two authorities, one was the Cihuacoátl (female Serpent) engaged in the Administration,
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- ↑ Supreme Council where all decisions took place.
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