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Index
Acamapichtli, Mexica king
Acolhua peoples
Acolman
administrative documents; see also Relaciones Geográficas
afterlife
agricultural intensification
agriculture; see also chinampas; house gardens; irrigation; terracing, agricultural
Aguilar, GerÓnimo de
Ahuitzotl, Mexica king
Alahuistlan
algae
alligators
altarsn17; in markets; see also skull racks
Aztec polity, see city-states; Colonial-period institution
Alva Ixtlilxochitl, Fernando de
Alvarado, Pedro de
Alvarado Tezozomoc, Fernando de,
amanteca, see featherworking
Amantlan
amaranth
amber
Amecamecan
amethyst
Anales de Cuauhtitlan
analogy, use of
animal fur and skins
anthropology
aqueducts
Arana Alvarez, Raúl
archaeology; methodsn20; monumental and social approachesn4; see also regional survey; site surface research
architecture; see also houses; palaces; temples; temple-pyramids
armor
army, see warfare
arrow-makers
art see also craft production
art history
astrology
astronomy
athletics, see ballgame
atole
autosacrifice
Aveni, Anthony F.
avocados
Axayacatl, Mexica king
axe-moneyn19
axes
Azcapotzalco
Aztec, definition ofn2
‘Aztec calendar stone’n
Aztec empire, see empire, Aztec
Aztlan; migrants from
bag-makers
ballcourts; see also ballgame
ballgame; see also ballcourts
barbers
bark-beaters,
basalt tools; see also bark-beaters; metates
basketmakers
baskets
beans
bells, bronze
Berdan, Frances F.n7
Blanton, Richard E.n4
bone rattles, see bones, notched
bones: bone items sold in markets; crossedn17; in myths; notched
booksn3
Borah, Woodrow
borders: city-state; imperial
Both, Arndt Adje
bronze: metallurgy; objects; trade in; see also bells
Brumfiel, Elizabeth M.n25
Buenavista hills
building materials
burials
burnishers
cacao; trade in; use as money
Cacaxtla
cactus fruit
calendarsn12; 260-day ritual calendar; day names; leap years
Calixtlahuacan21n25
calpolli and craft productionn5; rural; urban
Camaxtli
candlemakers
canes for arrows
cannibalism
canoes
Capilcon20; excavations at
capital punishmentn
capitalismn
carpenters
carrying capacityn
Cathedral, Mexico City
Catholicism
census records: Nahuatl; Spanish
Centeotl
ceramics, see pottery
ceremonies, see rituals
Chalca peoples; see also Chalco
Chalcatzingo
Chalchiuhtlicue
Chalchiuhtotolin
Chalco
Chalco, Lake
Chantico
Chapultepec
charcoal burners
Charles V, Spanish king
Charlton, Thomas H.
Chávez Balderas, Ximena
chert
chia
Chichimecs
Chicomecoatl
Chicomoztoc
Chiconautlan
childbirth
childhood
chili peppers
Chimalpahin, Domingo de San AntÓn MuñÓn
Chimalpopoca, Mexica king
chinampas; at Tenochtitlan
chocolate, see cacao
Cholula; pottery of; role in Spanish conquest
Chontal
chroniclers; see also Alva Ixtlilxochitl, Fernando de; Chimalpahin, Domingo de San AntÓn MuñÓn; Durán, Friar Diego de; Sahagún, Friar Bernardino de
chronology of Aztec culture
churches, Christian; see also Catholicism
Cihuacoatl: deity; title of Mexica royal advisor
Cihuatecpan
cities; see also urban planning; urbanism; names of individual cities
Citlaltepec hill
city-states
Clark, John E.
classes, social, see commoners; nobles; social stratification
client states
climate, central Mexicon1
cloth, see textiles
clothing; see also textiles
Coacalco temple
coatepantli (serpent wall)
Coatepec: city-state; mythological place
Coatetelcon
Coatlicue
Coatlinchan
Coayxtlahuacan province
Codex Borgia
Codex Mendoza
Codex Nuttall
codices, see books
collective actionn
colonial period; see also New Spain
comalli (tortilla griddle)
commerce; see also markets; merchants; transport; individual trade goods
commoditiesn26; see also individual trade goods
commoners; see also calpolli; peasants; social stratification
conch shell trumpet
congregaciÓn policy
construction methods
Cook, Sherburne
cooking, see food, preparation of
copal incense
copper, see bronze
coral
corn, see maize
Cortés, Hernando; as a historical source
cotton; see also textiles
counterfeiting
Coyoacan
Coyolxauhqui; stone sculpture of
Cozumel
Crabt
ree, Donn
craft productionn1n13; see also obsidian; pottery; textiles
cremationn
Cuauhnahuac
Cuauhtemoc, Mexica king
Cuauhtitlan
Cuauhtitlan River
Cuernavaca; see also Cuauhnahuac
Cuexcomaten20; artifacts and buildings at; excavations at; imported goods at
Cuicuilco
Cuitlahuac, city-state
Cuitlahuac, Mexica king
Culhua peoples; see also Culhuacan
Culhuacan
curing; see also disease; medicine; physicians
dance
day names, see calendars
Day of the Dead ceremonies
De Lucia, Kristinn
de Vega Nova, Hortensia
death; symbolism
debt payment, symbolic
deer; deerskins
demography, see population, growth; population, size
devil, Christian concept
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
diet; see also amaranth; beans; maize
digging stick
diplomacy
directional cosmology
disease
divination
Dodds Pennock, Caroline
dogs
domestication of crops
drought; see also climate, central Mexico
drums
ducks
Durán, Friar Diego de
dyers
dyes
Eagle Warriors Hall (Tenochtitlan)
Eagle Warriors Temple (Malinalco)
eagles
ear spools
eggs, turkey
Ehecatl
elderly people
elote
empire, Aztecn16n17; formation and expansion of see also borders, imperial; taxes, imperial
encomiendas
end of the world in 2012n26; see also rituals, new fire ceremony
environment
Epiclassic period
ethnic groups, Aztec; see also Acolhua peoples; Chalca peoples; Mexica peoples; Otomi peoples; Tepanec peoples; Tlahuica peoples
ethnohistory
Evans, Susan T.
families, see households
famine
Fargher, Lane
farming, see agriculture
feasts
feathered serpent; see also Quetzalcoatl
feathers; trade in; as tax items
featherworking
figurines, ceramic
fire, see rituals; Xiuhcoatl, deity
firewood
fish
Flintstones, The (cartoon)
Florentine Codex (Sahagún)
flower-workers
flowery warn
flute-makers
flutes
food; preparation of; see also amaranth; beans; maize
fortressesn20; see also Oztuma
four suns, myth of
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