Mapa Quinatzin
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The Mapa Quinatzin is a 16th-century
Nahua The Nahuas ( ) are a Uto-Nahuan ethnicity and one of the Indigenous people of Mexico, with Nahua minorities also in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. They comprise the largest Indigenous group in Mexico, as well as ...
pictorial document, consisting of three sheets of
amatl Amate ( from ) is a type of bark paper that has been manufactured in Mexico since the Mesoamerican chronology, precontact times. It was used primarily to create Maya codices, codices. Amate paper was extensively produced and used for both comm ...
paper that depict the history of Acolhuacan.


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Aztec codices Aztec codices ( , sing. ''codex'') are Mesoamerican manuscripts made by the pre-Columbian Aztec, and their Nahuatl-speaking descendants during the colonial period in Mexico. Most of their content is pictorial in nature and they come from ...
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Codex Xolotl The ''Codex Xolotl'' (also known as ''Códice Xolotl'') is a postconquest cartographic Aztec codex, thought to have originated before 1542. The text is primarily graphic, but it is also annotated in Nahuatl. It details the preconquest history o ...


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High Definition scans of the codex at the French National Library
A 16th century in the Aztec civilization 16th century in Mexico 16th century in New Spain Pictograms {{mesoamerica-stub