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Mexica Migration
Around the early 11th century CE, Nahuatl-speaking northern peoples, including the Mexica ancestors, gradually migrated south from arid northern Mexi…
Timeline
- 1001–1100Chichimec region of northern Mexico · Northern MexicoClimate change and population pressure drove Nahuatl-speaking hunter-gatherer groups southward; the Mexica ancestors, later called the 'Chichimecs', began a migration lasting several centuries.
- c. 1100–1200Outskirts of the Valley of Mexico · Valley of MexicoThe migrating groups reached the edge of the Valley of Mexico, successively residing in Culhuacan, Chapultepec, and other places, learning agriculture and city-state politics, accumulating social experience for the later founding of Tenochtitlan.
Sources
- The Aztecs — Richard F. Townsend (2009)
- Aztec migration legends https://www.worldhistory.org/article/911/the-aztec-migration-legends/