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Sociopolitical Flashcards

1
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citizens of the pueblo (of the altepetl) {CN}

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ahuaque tepehuaque

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town papers, documents; primordial titles (all or most examples of this term come from the Techialoyan genre) {CN}

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altepeamatl

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door or entrance to the city {CN}

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altepecalacoayan

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to put landmarks around the boundaries of the pueblo, to set up the boundaries {CN}

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altepecuaxochquetza

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resident of a town (see Karttunen) {CN}

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altepehua

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in the various altepetl; in the countryside {CN}

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altepehuacan

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leaders of the municipality, or citizens of the municipality; city fathers; members of the high council (cabildo)

[Fuente: Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), 95.]

“nican altepehuaque” = “altepetl citizens here”

[Fuente: Sarah Cline, “The Testaments of Culhuacan, “ in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (Eugene, OR: Wired Humanities Project, e-book, 2007.] {CN}

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altepehuaque

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to visit or make an inspection of indigenous communities, towns, and cities {CN}

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altepeitta

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founders of the altepetl (a plural agentive noun) {CN}

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altepemanque

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a walled city {CN}

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altepetenametica

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to establish the boundaries or boundary markers around a city or town {CN}

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altepetenanquetza

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one who works for the altepetl (see attestations) {CN}

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altepetequiti

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the house of the town; may refer to the support of the church and/or the residence of the local priest, given that this comes on the heels of a more specific statement about supporting the priests with food

(Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Luis Reyes Garci­a, “Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, ai±o de 1559, “ Estudios de Cultura Ni¡huatl 10 (1972), 294–295.] {CN}

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altepetl ichan

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to populate or to found a town or pueblo (intransitive); to rebel against a cabecera or head town of a district (nin., reflexive) {CN}

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altepetlalia

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property pertaining to the altepetl, to the pueblo {CN}

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altepetlatquitl

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a subject community with the dominion of a city or town; or a hamlet that is part of a city {CN}

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altepetlianca

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to found or establish a pueblo, a town {CN}

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altepetzintia

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things relating to the altepetl, socio-political unit, town, city-state (see attestations) {CN}

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altepeyotl

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a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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Aztateca

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ward, neighborhood

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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barrio

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head town of a district
(a loanword from Spanish)

[Fuente: James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 212.] {CN}

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cabecera

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calpulli land

[Fuente: S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 235.] {CN}

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callpullalli

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someone pertaining to a calpolli (or calpulli); a priest; a parishioner

[Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood’s notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

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calpulle

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those of the parish, often the leaders

[Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood’s notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

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calpulleque

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literally, “big house, “ usually a subunit of an altepetl, and earlier an egalitarian kin group {CN}

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calpulli

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a person who resides in the pueblo, or something that pertains to a given neighborhood (see Molina) {CN}

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calpulpanpohui

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Castile, Spain

(a loanword from Spanish: Castilla) {CN}

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Castillan

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to rebel against the cabecera (head town); or separate and establish an independent entity(?) (see Molina) {CN}

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ceccan ninotlalia

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in each barrio; or, each barrio (see Molina) {CN}

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cecen tlaxilacalpan

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to each cuadrilla or to each barrio (small settlement, neighborhood) {CN}

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cecencalpultin

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to each neighborhood; or, in each neighborhood or division of a community {CN}

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cecenchinampan

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a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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Cempohualteca

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owner of a home; citizen; householder; resident; inhabitant (can be an animal that occupies a certain habitat) (plural: chaneque) {CN}

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chane

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the seven pueblos, a reference to the Chichimec groups that came out of Chicomoztoc

(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
[Fuente: Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Gi¼emes, y Luis Reyes Garci­a (Mexico: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 157.] {CN}

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chicome altepetl

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China, or Asia more generally, including the Philippines

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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China

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a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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Chiuhnauhteca

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city

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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ciudad

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secondary town or city officials; people of the city

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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ciudadtlaca

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community; community chest; even seen to mean “in common”

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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comunidad

40
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a program of concentrated settlements, systematic resettlements of indigenous people organized by Spaniards to concentrate people more
(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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congregacion

41
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a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs; an ethnic group; an enemy of the Mexica

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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Cozcateca

42
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a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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Cuatlachteca

43
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a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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cuauhchichinolca

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a carpenter shop, or a neighborhood of carpenters (see Molina) {CN}

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cuauhximaloyan

45
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a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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Cuitlapiltzinca

46
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another name for Puebla {CN}

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Cuitlaxcohuapan

47
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a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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Cuixcoca

48
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Spain

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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Espai±a

49
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private legally sanctioned landed property of some size, usually for livestock; also, a small outlying indigenous settlement
(a loanword from Spanish)

[Fuente: James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 217.] {CN}

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estancia

50
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a Spanish colony, La Florida

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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Florida

51
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city {CN}

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huei altepetl

52
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village of the city, or district (see Molina) {CN}

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ima ycxi yn altepetl

53
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the hand and the foot of the altepetl; this is a metaphor for to refer to the parts of the larger socio-political unit (see attestations) {CN}

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in ima in icxi in altepetl

54
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the Indies, the Americas in the time of Spanish colonization

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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Indias

55
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and in the tongue of the Nahuas (see Molina) {CN}

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inic monahuaitoa

56
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one’s community or part of a community(?); necessarily possessed(?)

(Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
[Fuente: Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronologica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripcion paleogri¡fica, traduccion, presentacion y notas por Luis Reyes Garci­a y Andrea Marti­nez Baracs (Tlaxcala and Mexico City: Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala, Secretari­a de Extension Universitaria y Difusion Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologi­a Social, 1995), 618–619.] {CN}

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ipanyoc

57
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a son that gives honor and joy to his parents by doing virtuous and heroic acts (see Molina) {CN}

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itolotla

58
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a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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Itzcuitzoncatl

59
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to have a certain way or style of speaking (see Molina) {CN}

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iuh tlatolo

60
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Japan

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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Japon

61
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jurisdiction

(a loanword from Spanish, jurisdiccion) {CN}

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jurisdiccion

62
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to present ourselves amongst others as very brave, daring, composed and gloriously (see Molina) {CN}

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mahuiznextia

63
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to single out, accuse someone of infamy (see Molina) {CN}

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mahuizpololiznezcayotia

64
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was set up, set down, assembled (passive form)

[Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood’s notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

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manoc

65
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Mexican-ness, the Mexican state; the Mexica empire {CN}

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Mexicayotl

66
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to become established in a settlement
[Fuente: Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Gi¼emes, y Luis Reyes Garci­a (Mexico: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 144.]

to assemble; to pile on to each other
[Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood’s notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

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moteca

67
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New Spain; name of a Spanish jurisdiction embracing much of present-day Mexico
(a loanword from Spanish)

[Fuente: The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.] {CN}

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Nueva Espai±a

68
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a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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Pantecatl

69
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province

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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provincia

70
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town, community; literally, a “people” or ethnic group

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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pueblo

71
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kingdom, realm

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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reino

72
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indigenous corporation 
 (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}
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repiºblica

73
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Rome, sometimes called an “altepetl”

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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Roma

74
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term used by Spaniards for outlying indigenous entities in the belief that they were ruled from a dominant center like the Spanish hamlets
(a loanword from Spanish)

[Fuente: The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 154.] {CN}

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sujeto

75
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to hold someone as a patron of the community or town council, as one who favors it, and to actually be that patron (see Molina) {CN}

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tamati

76
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a head town (see attestations) {CN}

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teacac tepeixpan

77
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government palace (see attestations) {CN}

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tecpanchan

78
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stone seats, stone thrones; can be a metaphor for the founding of a town (see attestations) {CN}

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teicpalli

79
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person who collects tributes, etc., in a ward; boss; someone in charge; guardian; lower-level altepetl officials (drawn from the macehualli class) Plural: tepixque {CN}

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tepixqui

80
Q

a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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Tetetzincatl

81
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a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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Teuhxilcatl

82
Q

“land-elders”; altepetl officials

[Fuente: James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 144.] {CN}

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tlalhuehuetque

83
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set down, place, establish; seat oneself; give a seat to another, install in leadership; compose or make (as in statutes and ordinances); this verb was also used in discussions of town foundings {CN}

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tlalia

84
Q

to found a town {CN}

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tlalmana

85
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to do penance, or to become deserving for someone (see Molina); also seen in association with becoming deserving of founding a town, of having a town over which to rule (see attestations) {CN}

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tlamacehuia

86
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“something dragged along, “ usually referring to a subdivision of an altepetl; in Spanish translation, sujeto

[Fuente: James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 56–7.] {CN}

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tlatilanalli

87
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citizen of a tlaxilacalli, sometimes an authority of a tlaxilacalli

[Fuente: James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.] {CN}

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tlaxilacale

88
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citizens of the tlaxilacalli or authorities of the tlaxilacalli (plural of tlaxilacale) {CN}

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tlaxilacaleque

89
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divisions of a larger social unit; an altepetl of a larger state; or, a barrio, parcialidad (see the attestations) {CN}

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tlayacatl

90
Q

a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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Tlematepehua

91
Q

to belong to

(a loan verb from Spanish, tocar) {CN}

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tocaroa

92
Q

a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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Tzacanca

93
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a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

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Tzanatepehua

94
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to commence; to introduce; to start something (see Molina); to found, establish [e.g. a town] {CN}

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tzintia

95
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a town with a certain status in Spanish town hierarchy

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

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villa

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