The Tlaxcaltecs, or Tlaxcalteca, are a Nahua people that formed in the Puebla–Tlaxcala Valley, in the present-day territory of Mexico, during the postclassic period in Mesoamerica. One of their most d
Tlaxcaltec and Spanish warriors fighting against Purépecha warriors.
Camaxtli guiding his people to the promised land, detail from the murals of the Tlaxcala Government Palace [es].
The tutelary deity of the Tlaxcaltec people, Camaxtli, in the murals of the Tlaxcala Government Palace, painted by Desiderio Hernández Xochitiotzin.
Emblems and names of the Four Lordships, with the detail of "Tlaxcallan" in the centre.
The Mexica are a Nahuatl-speaking people of the Valley of Mexico who were the rulers of the Triple Alliance, more commonly referred to as the Aztec Empire. The Mexica established Tenochtitlan, a settl
Tlaxcaltec
…came into conflict with other, more established groups, who forced them to abandon the valley. The Tlaxcalteca were a Nahua group, one of—alongside the Mexica and five others—the seven tribes which migrated from their original homeland in the north. After settling in (what is now called) Tlaxcala, they formed…
Music and dance during a One Flower ceremony, from the Florentine Codex
Huitzilopochtli, the patron god of the Mexica, as depicted in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis