10 Facts About Nahua people

The Nahua then settled in and around the Basin of Mexico and spread out to become the dominant people in central Mexico.

At the turn of the 16th century, Nahua people populations occupied territories ranging across Mesoamerica as far south as Panama.

From c 600 CE the Nahua quickly rose to power in central Mexico and expanded into areas earlier occupied by Oto-Manguean, Totonacan and Huastec peoples.

Around 1000 CE the Toltec people, normally assumed to have been of Nahua ethnicity, established dominion over much of central Mexico which they ruled from Tollan Xicocotitlan.

From this period on the Nahua people were the dominant ethnic group in the Valley of Mexico and far beyond, and migrations kept coming in from the north.

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New Spain was founded as a state under Spanish rule but where Nahua people were recognized as allies of the rulers and as such were granted privileges and a degree of independence that other indigenous peoples of the area did not enjoy.

The Nahua people who did not abandon their religious practices were severely punished or executed.

The Nahua people often incorporated pre-Christian practices and beliefs into the Christian religion without the authorities' noticing it.

Nahua people quickly took the Latin alphabetic writing as their own.

The outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in Morelos, which still had a significant Nahua people population, was sparked by peasant resistance to the expansion of sugar estates.