Nahua (Aztecs): words for a city's temples, rulers and trades

Calpolli and their temples, huei teocalli, tecpan, pipiltin and macehualtin, pochteca, tlacuilos (c. 1400-1520). Names only: a culture changes no figure of the city, it gives the sheet its words.

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On the sheetIn this culture
Its places of worshipIts calpolli temples
Quarter of the places of worshipAround the teocalli
Quarter of the places of worship: where it liesaround the huei teocalli, the great temple, and the calpolli temples.
Quarter of the powerful: where it liesin the safest place, near the tecpan, the lord's palace from which the town is governed.
ClergyPriests (tlamacazqui)
NotablesPipiltin (nobles)
Scribes and public writersTlacuilos (codex painters)
GuardsWarriors
Physicians and healersHealers (tizitl)
Bakers and cooksTortilla sellers
Brewers and tavernersOctli (pulque) brewers
MerchantsPochteca (long-distance merchants)

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