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.
HorreC@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, the people literally called themselves Mexica, they chose to call them Aztecs because they thought it would confuse the people.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
HorreC@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t need to read the article you linked, because SOMEONE made up the term “Mexica”, just like someone made up the term “Aztec”.
Dumbing down for people, indeed. It’s all over your head, sad really