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Chichimecas

They were the original settlers of the north and low-west of Mexico, a region known as La Gran Chichimeca.

After conquering Cholula they founded towns and dynasties in areas that today comprise the states of Puebla, Oaxaca, Tlaxcala and Veracruz. 

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Chichimecas

Cholultecas

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Inhabitants of Cholula devoted to Quetzalcoátl, who in the 12th century controlled the trade routes and political centers of the Puebla-Tlaxcala valley and the Mixteca Poblana.  

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Cholultecas

Popolocas and Mixtecos

Tribes of the Mixteca Poblana and Mixteca Baja region that were expelled from the Sierra de Amozoc in the 12th century. In the Map of Cuauhtinchan no. 2, it is staged that a coalition of these ethnic groups that inhabited the Coixtlahuaca valley, in the 14th century, conquered Cuauhtinchan and its allies Tepeaca, Tecamachalco, Quecholac, Acatzingo and Tecalco.

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Popolocas y Mixtecos
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