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>>716286648
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>>716283671
Have any feedback? I know a guy who knows the dev
>>716283059
LB7?
>>716280747
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>>716280885
The Aztec and other Mesoamericans are pretty much categorically not "tribes": The region is defined in large part by having formal political states based in urban cities, which had been a thing in the region many thousands of years before say the Aztec existed, see pic. There's some groups at the fringes of the region which were chiefdoms or tribes but those are edge cases (ironically though the Aztec originated as some of those tribes from the Northwest migrating down into Central Mexico and then adopting urban civilization)
>>716281794
I'm also tired so I'm not gonna do a giant response to this, but I would broadly agree with that. There's some caveats in that even early on in Mexica history before they founded Tenochtitlan, there are accounts which frame them as especially warlike or prone to acts of bloody excess, such as the infamous incident where the Colhua princess was sacrificed after and her father (expecting to attend a political marriage) walked in on a priest wearing her flayed skin, or in another version the king asked them to go attack a city and bring back cut off ears as proof and instead they cut off noses at such a high quantity the king was aghast, but those examples are apocryphal legends that are usually framed in context as misunderstandings and examples of the Mexica being unjustly maligned and facing hardships en route to finally reaching the promised land where they'd found Tenochtitlan, or as kind of boasting myths to play up how hardcore they were as warriors, or some combination of those things...
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>>716283671
Have any feedback? I know a guy who knows the dev
>>716283059
LB7?
>>716280747
>>716280815
>>716280885
The Aztec and other Mesoamericans are pretty much categorically not "tribes": The region is defined in large part by having formal political states based in urban cities, which had been a thing in the region many thousands of years before say the Aztec existed, see pic. There's some groups at the fringes of the region which were chiefdoms or tribes but those are edge cases (ironically though the Aztec originated as some of those tribes from the Northwest migrating down into Central Mexico and then adopting urban civilization)
>>716281794
I'm also tired so I'm not gonna do a giant response to this, but I would broadly agree with that. There's some caveats in that even early on in Mexica history before they founded Tenochtitlan, there are accounts which frame them as especially warlike or prone to acts of bloody excess, such as the infamous incident where the Colhua princess was sacrificed after and her father (expecting to attend a political marriage) walked in on a priest wearing her flayed skin, or in another version the king asked them to go attack a city and bring back cut off ears as proof and instead they cut off noses at such a high quantity the king was aghast, but those examples are apocryphal legends that are usually framed in context as misunderstandings and examples of the Mexica being unjustly maligned and facing hardships en route to finally reaching the promised land where they'd found Tenochtitlan, or as kind of boasting myths to play up how hardcore they were as warriors, or some combination of those things...
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