Hello and welcome to a history of the United States membership feed.

Episode 1, Aztec 101.

I'd like to begin this series firstly by saying thank you. Thank you for buying this. This podcast could not exist without your patronage.

So, just what have you bought? While the free feed will cover the basic narrative, this is going to be a feed which can get into the extras. This podcast will be released every two weeks, and should,

I hope, be rather enjoyable. While it's all well and good saying that this feed is going to be

all the extra stuff, at the moment in the main feed we've just

created the colony at Jamestown. We're still over 150 years away from the United States being

founded. So, we'll have to be a bit creative with what we cover. What I'd like this opening series

of episodes to be is the founding of New Spain, which in the free feed we haven't really given much attention to other than setting up the Spanish in Florida and a cursory mention of Columbus.

They play a pretty important part in the story, but this isn't part of the traditional narrative. Perfect membership feed stuff.

Now, before we get on to the Conquistadors, there was a powerful, sophisticated civilization

already in existence of equal splendor than the one which replaced it.

The Aztecs. This is where we start our membership story.

I shall begin by saying that use of the word Aztecs. This is where we start our membership story. I shall begin by saying that use of the word Aztec is technically not accurate.

According to legendary tradition, the Aztecs originated from Aslan.

An island in a lake. From there, they migrated to the valley of Mexico, in which they would settle what would become Mexico City.

Their language was Nahuatl, and in Nauatl. They called themselves the Azteca, or the Astlaneka.

Their patron deity, Witsilopoccily, decided that they should migrate to the valley of Mexico

and renamed them the Mexica, from which we get the word Mexico.

From that point onwards, they referred to themselves either as Tenoka Mexica or Tlaoka-Meshika, depending on which bit of their capital,

Tenok-Tichlan they lived in.

Meshika was though a more general name, and it is used on its own, and by other groups not living

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