Sociopolitical Flashcards by Yan Garcia

citizens of the pueblo (of the altepetl) {CN}

ahuaque tepehuaque

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town papers, documents; primordial titles (all or most examples of this term come from the Techialoyan genre) {CN}

altepeamatl

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door or entrance to the city {CN}

altepecalacoayan

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to put landmarks around the boundaries of the pueblo, to set up the boundaries {CN}

altepecuaxochquetza

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resident of a town (see Karttunen) {CN}

altepehua

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in the various altepetl; in the countryside {CN}

altepehuacan

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leaders of the municipality, or citizens of the municipality; city fathers; members of the high council (cabildo)

[Fuente: Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), 95.]

“nican altepehuaque” = “altepetl citizens here”

[Fuente: Sarah Cline, “The Testaments of Culhuacan, “ in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (Eugene, OR: Wired Humanities Project, e-book, 2007.] {CN}

altepehuaque

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to visit or make an inspection of indigenous communities, towns, and cities {CN}

altepeitta

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founders of the altepetl (a plural agentive noun) {CN}

altepemanque

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a walled city {CN}

altepetenametica

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to establish the boundaries or boundary markers around a city or town {CN}

altepetenanquetza

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one who works for the altepetl (see attestations) {CN}

altepetequiti

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the house of the town; may refer to the support of the church and/or the residence of the local priest, given that this comes on the heels of a more specific statement about supporting the priests with food

(Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Luis Reyes Garcia, “Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, ai±o de 1559, “ Estudios de Cultura Ni¡huatl 10 (1972), 294â€“295.] {CN}

altepetl ichan

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to populate or to found a town or pueblo (intransitive); to rebel against a cabecera or head town of a district (nin., reflexive) {CN}

altepetlalia

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property pertaining to the altepetl, to the pueblo {CN}

altepetlatquitl

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a subject community with the dominion of a city or town; or a hamlet that is part of a city {CN}

altepetlianca

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to found or establish a pueblo, a town {CN}

altepetzintia

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things relating to the altepetl, socio-political unit, town, city-state (see attestations) {CN}

altepeyotl

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a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
[Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

Aztateca

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ward, neighborhood

(a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

barrio

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head town of a district
(a loanword from Spanish)

[Fuente: James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 212.] {CN}

cabecera

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calpulli land

[Fuente: S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 235.] {CN}

callpullalli

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someone pertaining to a calpolli (or calpulli); a priest; a parishioner

[Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood’s notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

calpulle

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those of the parish, often the leaders

[Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood’s notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

calpulleque

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literally, "big house, " usually a subunit of an altepetl, and earlier an egalitarian kin group {CN}

calpulli

a person who resides in the pueblo, or something that pertains to a given neighborhood (see Molina) {CN}

calpulpanpohui

Castile, Spain | (a loanword from Spanish: Castilla) {CN}

Castillan

to rebel against the cabecera (head town); or separate and establish an independent entity(?) (see Molina) {CN}

ceccan ninotlalia

in each barrio; or, each barrio (see Molina) {CN}

cecen tlaxilacalpan

to each cuadrilla or to each barrio (small settlement, neighborhood) {CN}

cecencalpultin

to each neighborhood; or, in each neighborhood or division of a community {CN}

cecenchinampan

a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs (central Mexico, sixteenth century) [Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

Cempohualteca

owner of a home; citizen; householder; resident; inhabitant (can be an animal that occupies a certain habitat) (plural: chaneque) {CN}

chane

the seven pueblos, a reference to the Chichimec groups that came out of Chicomoztoc (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan) [Fuente: Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Gi¼emes, y Luis Reyes Garcia (Mexico: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 157.] {CN}

chicome altepetl

China, or Asia more generally, including the Philippines | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

China

Chiuhnauhteca

city | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

ciudad

secondary town or city officials; people of the city | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

ciudadtlaca

community; community chest; even seen to mean "in common" | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

comunidad

a program of concentrated settlements, systematic resettlements of indigenous people organized by Spaniards to concentrate people more (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

congregacion

a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs; an ethnic group; an enemy of the Mexica (central Mexico, sixteenth century) [Fuente: Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel Leon-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.] {CN}

Cozcateca

Cuatlachteca

cuauhchichinolca

a carpenter shop, or a neighborhood of carpenters (see Molina) {CN}

cuauhximaloyan

Cuitlapiltzinca

another name for Puebla {CN}

Cuitlaxcohuapan

Cuixcoca

Spain | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Espai±a

private legally sanctioned landed property of some size, usually for livestock; also, a small outlying indigenous settlement (a loanword from Spanish) [Fuente: James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 217.] {CN}

estancia

a Spanish colony, La Florida | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Florida

city {CN}

huei altepetl

village of the city, or district (see Molina) {CN}

ima ycxi yn altepetl

the hand and the foot of the altepetl; this is a metaphor for to refer to the parts of the larger socio-political unit (see attestations) {CN}

in ima in icxi in altepetl

the Indies, the Americas in the time of Spanish colonization | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Indias

and in the tongue of the Nahuas (see Molina) {CN}

inic monahuaitoa

one's community or part of a community(?); necessarily possessed(?) (Tlaxcala, 1662â€“1692) [Fuente: Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronologica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripcion paleogri¡fica, traduccion, presentacion y notas por Luis Reyes Garcia y Andrea Martinez Baracs (Tlaxcala and Mexico City: Universidad Autonoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaria de Extension Universitaria y Difusion Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, 1995), 618â€“619.] {CN}

ipanyoc

a son that gives honor and joy to his parents by doing virtuous and heroic acts (see Molina) {CN}

itolotla

Itzcuitzoncatl

to have a certain way or style of speaking (see Molina) {CN}

iuh tlatolo

Japan | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Japon

jurisdiction | (a loanword from Spanish, jurisdiccion) {CN}

jurisdiccion

to present ourselves amongst others as very brave, daring, composed and gloriously (see Molina) {CN}

mahuiznextia

to single out, accuse someone of infamy (see Molina) {CN}

mahuizpololiznezcayotia

was set up, set down, assembled (passive form) [Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

manoc

Mexican-ness, the Mexican state; the Mexica empire {CN}

Mexicayotl

to become established in a settlement [Fuente: Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Gi¼emes, y Luis Reyes Garcia (Mexico: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 144.] to assemble; to pile on to each other [Fuente: Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.] {CN}

moteca

New Spain; name of a Spanish jurisdiction embracing much of present-day Mexico (a loanword from Spanish) [Fuente: The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.] {CN}

Nueva Espai±a

Pantecatl

province | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

provincia

town, community; literally, a "people" or ethnic group | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

pueblo

kingdom, realm | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

reino

``` indigenous corporation (a loanword from Spanish) {CN} ```

repiºblica

Rome, sometimes called an "altepetl" | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

Roma

term used by Spaniards for outlying indigenous entities in the belief that they were ruled from a dominant center like the Spanish hamlets (a loanword from Spanish) [Fuente: The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 154.] {CN}

sujeto

to hold someone as a patron of the community or town council, as one who favors it, and to actually be that patron (see Molina) {CN}

tamati

a head town (see attestations) {CN}

teacac tepeixpan

government palace (see attestations) {CN}

tecpanchan

stone seats, stone thrones; can be a metaphor for the founding of a town (see attestations) {CN}

teicpalli

person who collects tributes, etc., in a ward; boss; someone in charge; guardian; lower-level altepetl officials (drawn from the macehualli class) Plural: tepixque {CN}

tepixqui

Tetetzincatl

Teuhxilcatl

"land-elders"; altepetl officials [Fuente: James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 144.] {CN}

tlalhuehuetque

set down, place, establish; seat oneself; give a seat to another, install in leadership; compose or make (as in statutes and ordinances); this verb was also used in discussions of town foundings {CN}

tlalia

to found a town {CN}

tlalmana

to do penance, or to become deserving for someone (see Molina); also seen in association with becoming deserving of founding a town, of having a town over which to rule (see attestations) {CN}

tlamacehuia

"something dragged along, " usually referring to a subdivision of an altepetl; in Spanish translation, sujeto [Fuente: James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 56â€“7.] {CN}

tlatilanalli

citizen of a tlaxilacalli, sometimes an authority of a tlaxilacalli [Fuente: James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.] {CN}

tlaxilacale

citizens of the tlaxilacalli or authorities of the tlaxilacalli (plural of tlaxilacale) {CN}

tlaxilacaleque

divisions of a larger social unit; an altepetl of a larger state; or, a barrio, parcialidad (see the attestations) {CN}

tlayacatl

Tlematepehua

to belong to | (a loan verb from Spanish, tocar) {CN}

tocaroa

Tzacanca

Tzanatepehua

to commence; to introduce; to start something (see Molina); to found, establish [e.g. a town] {CN}

tzintia

a town with a certain status in Spanish town hierarchy | (a loanword from Spanish) {CN}

villa

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