11 Facts About Nahua peoples

The Nahua peoples 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 peoples 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 peoples ethnicity, established dominion over much of central Mexico which they ruled from Tollan Xicocotitlan.

From this period on the Nahua peoples 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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The Totonacs were one of the peoples that were politically subjugated by the Aztecs and word was immediately sent to the Aztec Emperor of Tenochtitlan Motecuhzoma II.

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 peoples who did not abandon their religious practices were severely punished or executed.

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

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

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