Comment on thx for the diabeetus

• pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well before Mexico, it was the Aztecs

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  • HorreC@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    there was never a Aztec people that was the name someone made up. The [Mexica] (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztecs) people are the ones you are talking about.

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    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Someone has made up every name for every thing

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      • HorreC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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• wieson@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t know where exactly maize was cultivated, but Mexico comes from city Mexico-Tenochtitlan.

  They found millenia old traces of maize in the valley of the Rio Balsa in Xihuatoxtla and also in the valley of Tehuacán.

  Something about Coxcatlán phase. Couldn’t find a name of a people who would have been responsible for the domestication.

  It’s easiest to say it happened in Mesoamerica.

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