• HorreC@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    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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      3 days ago

      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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        2 days ago

        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.