Nahua cultural sphere

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The Nahua cultural sphere encompasses the interconnected Mesoamerican peoples, languages, traditions, and polities associated with Nahuatl-speaking groups, including but not limited to the Aztecs and their allies.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Nahua cultural area 2
Aztec cultural sphere 1
Nahua cultural sphere canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (60)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mesoamerican cultural area
cultural sphere
associatedWith Acolhua
Aztecs
linked to: Mexica

Chalca
Huexotzinca
linked to: Huexotla

Mexica people
linked to: Mexica

Nahua peoples
linked to: Nahua

Nahuatl language
linked to: Nahuatl

Pipil people
Tepanec
Texcocans
Tlaxcalans
continuedInto colonial New Spain
geographicRegion Basin of Mexico
linked to: Valley of Mexico

Central Mexico
Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley
parts of El Salvador
hasCoreLanguage Nahuatl
hasCosmology Five Suns myth
linked to: Five Suns
hasCulturalPractice codex production
oratory
poetry (in xochitl in cuicatl)
hasDeity Huitzilopochtli
Quetzalcoatl
Tezcatlipoca
Tlaloc
Tonantzin
Xipe Totec
hasEconomicActivity chinampa agriculture
long-distance trade
tribute system
hasInstitution calmecac
calpulli
telpochcalli
hasLegalSource indigenous cabildo records
hasPoliticalForm city-state (altepetl)
triple alliance
hasReligion polytheism
hasRitualPractice bloodletting
calendar festivals
human sacrifice
hasSocialStructure commoners (macehualtin)
nobility (pipiltin)
serfs (mayehqueh)
slaves (tlacotin)
hasTextualSource Annals of Tlatelolco
Codex Mendoza
Florentine Codex
hasWritingTradition logographic writing
phonetic elements in writing
pictographic writing
influenced colonial Nahua Christianity
modern Nahua communities in Mexico
influencedBy Teotihuacan legacy
Toltec traditions
linked to: Toltec civilization
timePeriod Late Postclassic period
Postclassic Mesoamerica
usesCalendar tonalpohualli
xiuhpohualli

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Acolhua memberOf Nahua cultural sphere
Acolhua partOf Aztec cultural sphere
linked to: Nahua cultural sphere
Tepanec culturalSphere Nahua culture
linked to: Nahua cultural sphere
Michoacán Nahuatl belongsTo Nahua cultural area
linked to: Nahua cultural sphere
Coatlan regionType Nahua cultural area
linked to: Nahua cultural sphere