TIL,
there never were a people who called themselves the Aztecs. That name was invented by western Ivy Leauge academics to differentiate between pre-Columbian and post-Columbian Mexico. The Aztecs called themselves the Mexica.
TIL,
there never were a people who called themselves the Aztecs. That name was invented by western Ivy Leauge academics to differentiate between pre-Columbian and post-Columbian Mexico. The Aztecs called themselves the Mexica.
I thought all post-Columbian people were solely Europeans🤓
