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Who were the Chichimecs?
Describe this civilization.
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By 1100 AD, almost 52 years after the fall of the Toltecs, the Chichimecs living around the borders of the empire and sensing that the Toltecs halted their expeditions and did not engage in battles, invaded their territories. They were one of the oldest cultures in Mexico. Although, the term also was applied to describe other unknown savage tribes. Barbarous at first they became more civilized with time and established a monarchy that numbered 14 kings from 1120 until the arrival of the Spaniards in 1520.
They cautiously took possession of the once mighty land of the Toltecs, including their capital, Tula, and the great valley of Anahuac. They established themselves on the eastern shore of Lake Tezcoco. Under their first king, Xolotl, they intermarriage with the Toltec and became more refined.
Later, during the XII century, integrated with the Alcahua nation from the north and became to be known as Acolhuacan. This Chichimec, or Tezcocan, dynasty lasted over 400 years, and only ended when the Spaniards invaded Mexico.
Fray Diego Duran, an Spanish priest and a recognized authority on Mexican pre-Columbian language, customs, and history, who lived during the XVI century, wrote:
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"The few Chichimecs from the west of the snow-covered mountains toward Mexico were brutal, savage men, and they were called Chichimecs because they were hunters. They lived among the peaks and in the harshest places of the mountain where they led a bestial existence. They had no human organization but hunted food like the beasts of the same mountain, and went stark naked without any covering on their private parts.... when the new nations came, these savage people showed no resistance or anger, but rather awe. They fled towards the hills, hiding themselves there...."
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This painting "Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca" portrays Chicomoztoc, the Seven Caves of Aztlán, the place where the first Chichimec tribes emerged before invading the valley of México, to become the Aztecs.
They cautiously took possession of the once mighty land of the Toltecs, including their capital, Tula, and the great valley of Anahuac. They established themselves on the eastern shore of Lake Tezcoco. Under their first king, Xolotl, they intermarriage with the Toltec and became more refined.
Later, during the XII century, integrated with the Alcahua nation from the north and became to be known as Acolhuacan. This Chichimec, or Tezcocan, dynasty lasted over 400 years, and only ended when the Spaniards invaded Mexico.
Fray Diego Duran, an Spanish priest and a recognized authority on Mexican pre-Columbian language, customs, and history, who lived during the XVI century, wrote:
---Quote---
"The few Chichimecs from the west of the snow-covered mountains toward Mexico were brutal, savage men, and they were called Chichimecs because they were hunters. They lived among the peaks and in the harshest places of the mountain where they led a bestial existence. They had no human organization but hunted food like the beasts of the same mountain, and went stark naked without any covering on their private parts.... when the new nations came, these savage people showed no resistance or anger, but rather awe. They fled towards the hills, hiding themselves there...."
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This painting "Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca" portrays Chicomoztoc, the Seven Caves of Aztlán, the place where the first Chichimec tribes emerged before invading the valley of México, to become the Aztecs.
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