ehecatzin
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About city states, I would include a few mesoamerican ones, the area was filled with them after all.
Teotihuacan-(Commercial) Unique resource Jade
Tlaxcala- (Militaristic)
Tula- (Religous)
I dont get it why both Teotihuacan and Tlaxcala are in the Aztec city list, Teotihuacan wasnt even around when the Aztecs migrated, and Tlaxcala was esentially their archnemesis.
Anyway, Teotihuacan at its height had a massive empire controling trade routes all the way to central america, I think they fit the commercial CS type. their resourse is jade, after all, jade was precious in mesoamerica.
Tlaxcala gets the militaristic trait, even if the Aztecs were strangling them for decades, when the Spanish arrived they proved to be decisive in defeating the Aztecs.
Tula, the Toltecs were the empire the Aztecs were trying to emulate, and claimed to be heirs from. The toltecs were very militaristic, controlling central Mexico and several Mayan cities, their influence can be seen for example in Chichen Itza, they expanded their religion like no other mesoamerican civ before them, while the feathered snake can be atributed to Toetihuacan, its later form, Quetzalcoatl (the God King) is Toltec, the Aztecs adopted much of their religion as did the Mayans in the form of Kukulcan. I think they are the best candidate for religous mesoamerican CS.
Teotihuacan-(Commercial) Unique resource Jade
Tlaxcala- (Militaristic)
Tula- (Religous)
I dont get it why both Teotihuacan and Tlaxcala are in the Aztec city list, Teotihuacan wasnt even around when the Aztecs migrated, and Tlaxcala was esentially their archnemesis.
Anyway, Teotihuacan at its height had a massive empire controling trade routes all the way to central america, I think they fit the commercial CS type. their resourse is jade, after all, jade was precious in mesoamerica.
Tlaxcala gets the militaristic trait, even if the Aztecs were strangling them for decades, when the Spanish arrived they proved to be decisive in defeating the Aztecs.
Tula, the Toltecs were the empire the Aztecs were trying to emulate, and claimed to be heirs from. The toltecs were very militaristic, controlling central Mexico and several Mayan cities, their influence can be seen for example in Chichen Itza, they expanded their religion like no other mesoamerican civ before them, while the feathered snake can be atributed to Toetihuacan, its later form, Quetzalcoatl (the God King) is Toltec, the Aztecs adopted much of their religion as did the Mayans in the form of Kukulcan. I think they are the best candidate for religous mesoamerican CS.