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AZTEC-PERIOD POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN THE TEOTIHUACAN VALLEY

Otumba as a city-state

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2001

Susan Toby Evans
Susan Toby Evans
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, 409 Carpenter Building, University Park, PA 16802-3404, USA
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Abstract

The Aztec period city-state of Otumba in the upper Teotihuacan Valley was integrated into the Acolhua domain from the early 1430s to about 1515. It then became independent, demonstrating the fragility of city-state organization as a means of regional political integration. A close look at Otumba and other city-states in the Teotihuacan Valley reveals that Acolhua strategies of social engineering welded together the potentially-autonomous city-states into an elaborate political system with impressive structural strengthening and improved flow of services and materials through it.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: OTUMBA AND ITS NEIGHBORS
Information
Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 89 - 100
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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