Aztec vs Inca - What's the difference?
aztec | inca |
A Mexica.
* 1994: , Doris Heyden (translator), The History of the Indies of New Spain
A Nahua.
* 1989: Elizabeth Hill Boone, Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural: The Image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe
Of or pertaining to the Mexica people.
Of or pertaining to the Nahuas.
Of or pertaining to the Nahuatl language.
A member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru who established an empire from northern Ecuador to central Chile before the Spanish conquest.
As nouns the difference between aztec and inca
is that aztec is a mexica while inca is inca.As a proper noun aztec
is the nahuatl language.As an adjective aztec
is of or pertaining to the mexica people.aztec
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The lords of Tlatelolco were greatly angered over this and said, one to another, "These Aztecs' believe that we are of an alien lineage. Do they not know that we are ' Aztecs like them[?]
- (= los señores de Tlatelulco, recibieron mucho enojo y pesadumbre, y dixeron entre sí mesmos: estos mexicanos' imaginan que nosotros somos de diferente generacion quellos; no saben que somo ' mexicanos ) [1867 edition]
- Although united culturally, the Aztecs thought of themselves in terms of their particular tribal affiliations: as Mexica, Tetzcoca, Culhua, Tepaneca, etc.