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Podcast: Tales From Aztlantis
Episode: Episode 31: Azteca or Mexica?
Description: Azteca or Mexica? For this episode, I will be drawing heavily from the article “the word Azteca was not created by Von Humboldt” written by Ruben Ochoa, which originally appeared on the website Mexika.org.Whenever some well-meaning individual posts a link to an article about any aspect of Aztec history to social media, they are inevitably met with a barrage of comments that usually sound something like this:“actually, they never called themselves Aztecs. They called themselves Mexica.” That refrain, or something very similar to it, has been repeated t...