Tlaxcala was a pre-Columbian city and state in central Mexico.
Tlaxcaltecâ allies accompany Hernán Cortés during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire, 1519, from the History of Tlaxcala.
"The Tlaxcallan Senate", depiction of the Tlaxcalan government by Rodrigo Gutiérrez, 1875
Cholula was an important city of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, dating back to at least the 2nd century BC, with settlement as a village going back at least some thousand years earlier. The site of Cholul
Great Pyramid of Cholula
The massacre of Cholula, as depicted in the Lienzo de Tlaxcala (1584)
The Massacre of Cholula by Félix Parra (1845-1919)