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The Acolhua are a Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica or Meso-America is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, within which a number of pre-Columbian society flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries....
n people who arrived in the Valley of Mexico
Valley of Mexico

The Valley of Mexico is a highlands plateau in central Mexico roughly coterminous with the present-day Mexican Federal District and the eastern half of the M?xico ....
 in or around the year 1200 CE
Common Era

Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is a designation for the calendar system most commonly used in the Western world, and also internationally, for numbering the year part of the calendar date....
. The Acolhua were a sister culture of the Aztecs (or Mexica) as well as the Tepanec
Tepanec

The Tepanecs or Tepaneca are a Mesoamerican people who arrived in the Valley of Mexico in the late 12th or early 13th centuries. The Tepanec were a sister culture of the Aztecs as well as the Acolhua and others -- these tribes spoke the Nahuatl language and shared the same general pantheon, with local and tribal variations....
, Chalca, Xochimilca and others.

It is likely that the ruling family of the Acolhua were descended from Otomi
Otomi language

The Otomi language is an indigenous languages of Mexico, spoken across a number of central Mexican states by the ethnic group widely known as the Otomi people but who refer to themselves as H??h?u ....
 speakers and did not speak Nahuatl until decreed by their ruler (tlatoani
Tlatoani

Tlatoani is the Nahuatl term for the ruler of an altepetl, a pre-Hispanic state. The word literally means "speaker", but may be translated into English as "king"....
) Techotlalatzin
Techotlalatzin

Techotlalatzin was the ruler of the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city-state of Texcoco from 1357 or 1377 until his death in 1409. Techotlalatzin was the first ruler of the Acolhua who actively adopted the prevailing culture of the Valley of Mexico, including the Classical Nahuatl....
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Under Techotlalatzin's grandson, Nezahualcoyotl
Nezahualcoyotl

Nezahualcoyotl According to his descendants and biographers, Fernando de Alva Cort?s Ixtlilxochitl and Juan Bautista de Pomar, who lived a century after Nezahualcoyotl, he was something of a monotheist, honoring his god in a 10-level pyramidal temple....
, the Acolhua allied with the Mexica (Aztecs) in the Aztec Triple Alliance
Aztec Triple Alliance

The Aztec Triple Alliance, also known as the Aztec Empire, was an alliance of three Aztec city-states: Tenochtitlan; Texcoco ; and Tlacopan....
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The Acolhua are a Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica or Meso-America is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, within which a number of pre-Columbian society flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries....
n people who arrived in the Valley of Mexico
Valley of Mexico

The Valley of Mexico is a highlands plateau in central Mexico roughly coterminous with the present-day Mexican Federal District and the eastern half of the M?xico ....
 in or around the year 1200 CE
Common Era

Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is a designation for the calendar system most commonly used in the Western world, and also internationally, for numbering the year part of the calendar date....
. The Acolhua were a sister culture of the Aztecs (or Mexica) as well as the Tepanec
Tepanec

The Tepanecs or Tepaneca are a Mesoamerican people who arrived in the Valley of Mexico in the late 12th or early 13th centuries. The Tepanec were a sister culture of the Aztecs as well as the Acolhua and others -- these tribes spoke the Nahuatl language and shared the same general pantheon, with local and tribal variations....
, Chalca, Xochimilca and others.

It is likely that the ruling family of the Acolhua were descended from Otomi
Otomi language

The Otomi language is an indigenous languages of Mexico, spoken across a number of central Mexican states by the ethnic group widely known as the Otomi people but who refer to themselves as H??h?u ....
 speakers and did not speak Nahuatl until decreed by their ruler (tlatoani
Tlatoani

Tlatoani is the Nahuatl term for the ruler of an altepetl, a pre-Hispanic state. The word literally means "speaker", but may be translated into English as "king"....
) Techotlalatzin
Techotlalatzin

Techotlalatzin was the ruler of the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city-state of Texcoco from 1357 or 1377 until his death in 1409. Techotlalatzin was the first ruler of the Acolhua who actively adopted the prevailing culture of the Valley of Mexico, including the Classical Nahuatl....
.

Under Techotlalatzin's grandson, Nezahualcoyotl
Nezahualcoyotl

Nezahualcoyotl According to his descendants and biographers, Fernando de Alva Cort?s Ixtlilxochitl and Juan Bautista de Pomar, who lived a century after Nezahualcoyotl, he was something of a monotheist, honoring his god in a 10-level pyramidal temple....
, the Acolhua allied with the Mexica (Aztecs) in the Aztec Triple Alliance
Aztec Triple Alliance

The Aztec Triple Alliance, also known as the Aztec Empire, was an alliance of three Aztec city-states: Tenochtitlan; Texcoco ; and Tlacopan....
. The Acolhua capital, Texcoco
Texcoco

Texcoco was a major Acolhua city-state in the central Mexican plateau region of Mesoamerica during the Late Postclassic period of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican chronology....
, became a cultural center of the resultant Aztec Empire.

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