Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-174).
Summary:
The present study relates the Nahua-Chichimeca conformation and miscegenation that formed the powerful Aztec people. Warrior people who dominated, from Dakota to Lake Manahua, in Central America, and remained for nearly 200 years. The origins of the urban layout are also described, the main Aztec formal invariants, forced by the dynamic King Ahizotl. Of vital importance is to detail the reigns that, in the foothills of the southern mountain range of Ajusco, developed and formed seven tribes called "tlahuicas", all tributaries of the great Tenochitlan. Another of the fundamental ideas described in this story is to know the sudden cultural changes caused by the domination of Europeans; to analyze the juxta urban trace forced by the Spanish king; and to study the catechizing heritage that built in the Christian convents, a select group of illustrious Eramists, who in their beautiful monasteries, preserved -in esoteric form- elements and formal invariants Aztec, Jewish and Mudejar. These architectural elements take special attention during the work, beyond the Christian counter-reformation contrary to the one promoted as a utopian religious and social dream by the group of Franciscan, Dominican and Augustinian monks of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries throughout Mesoamerica and especially in the Tlahuica area.
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