Nahua cultural sphere

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The Nahua cultural sphere encompasses the interconnected Mesoamerican peoples, languages, traditions, and polities associated with Nahuatl-speaking groups, including but not limited to the Aztecs and their allies.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Nahua cultural area 2
Aztec cultural sphere 1
Nahua cultural sphere canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (60)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Mesoamerican cultural area ⓘ
cultural sphere ⓘ
associatedWith Acolhua ⓘ
Aztecs ⓘ
linked to: Mexica

Chalca ⓘ
Huexotzinca ⓘ
linked to: Huexotla

Mexica people ⓘ
linked to: Mexica

Nahua peoples ⓘ
linked to: Nahua

Nahuatl language ⓘ
linked to: Nahuatl

Pipil people ⓘ
Tepanec ⓘ
Texcocans ⓘ
Tlaxcalans ⓘ
continuedInto colonial New Spain ⓘ
geographicRegion Basin of Mexico ⓘ
linked to: Valley of Mexico

Central Mexico ⓘ
Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley ⓘ
parts of El Salvador ⓘ
hasCoreLanguage Nahuatl ⓘ
hasCosmology Five Suns myth ⓘ
linked to: Five Suns
hasCulturalPractice codex production ⓘ
oratory ⓘ
poetry (in xochitl in cuicatl) ⓘ
hasDeity Huitzilopochtli ⓘ
Quetzalcoatl ⓘ
Tezcatlipoca ⓘ
Tlaloc ⓘ
Tonantzin ⓘ
Xipe Totec ⓘ
hasEconomicActivity chinampa agriculture ⓘ
long-distance trade ⓘ
tribute system ⓘ
hasInstitution calmecac ⓘ
calpulli ⓘ
telpochcalli ⓘ
hasLegalSource indigenous cabildo records ⓘ
hasPoliticalForm city-state (altepetl) ⓘ
triple alliance ⓘ
hasReligion polytheism ⓘ
hasRitualPractice bloodletting ⓘ
calendar festivals ⓘ
human sacrifice ⓘ
hasSocialStructure commoners (macehualtin) ⓘ
nobility (pipiltin) ⓘ
serfs (mayehqueh) ⓘ
slaves (tlacotin) ⓘ
hasTextualSource Annals of Tlatelolco ⓘ
Codex Mendoza ⓘ
Florentine Codex ⓘ
hasWritingTradition logographic writing ⓘ
phonetic elements in writing ⓘ
pictographic writing ⓘ
influenced colonial Nahua Christianity ⓘ
modern Nahua communities in Mexico ⓘ
influencedBy Teotihuacan legacy ⓘ
Toltec traditions ⓘ
linked to: Toltec civilization
timePeriod Late Postclassic period ⓘ
Postclassic Mesoamerica ⓘ
usesCalendar tonalpohualli ⓘ
xiuhpohualli ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Acolhua → memberOf → Nahua cultural sphere ⓘ
Acolhua → partOf → Aztec cultural sphere ⓘ
linked to: Nahua cultural sphere
Tepanec → culturalSphere → Nahua culture ⓘ
linked to: Nahua cultural sphere
Michoacán Nahuatl → belongsTo → Nahua cultural area ⓘ
linked to: Nahua cultural sphere
Coatlan → regionType → Nahua cultural area ⓘ
linked to: Nahua cultural sphere