The altepetl (alˈtepetɬ), in Pre-Columbian and Spanish conquest-era Aztec society, was the local, ethnically based political entity. It is usually translated into English as `city-state`. The word is a combination of the Nahuatl words ā-tl, meaning water, and tepē-tl, meaning mountain. Nahuatl scholars Lisa Sousa, Stafford Poole, and James L.....
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(from the article `Latin America, history of`) ...with the Spaniards or the conquest, which seemed to them at first much like earlier conquests; they remained preoccupied to a large extent with ...
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