what would you say the united states has parallels with mesoamerica?
more specifically the Nahuas and Mexica but it goes as follows
-Both settler peoples who came from a foreign land
-Portioned into multiple sub groups (I.e. Dixies, Yankees, Canadians)
-Capital was built on a swamp as compromise
-Leader had more power over foreign policy than domestic
-rose to empire by exploiting tensions in a society far older than it forming their empire as an “alliance” (Mexica, Tlacopan, Tezcoco) (America, Britain, France)
-Empire was an indirect tribute empire that utilized show of force rather than strategic depth, wars more ornamental and arranged than total
-Via that indirectness cultural institutions were heavily manipulated to favor imperial norms
-Coups in the south
-Language becomes dominant language spoken
-Men and Women siloed into seperate but equal positions. Very masculine men but women asserted feminism.
Mexican natives such as zapotecs and Mixtecs say and said the exact same things of Nahuas as Europeans do with Americans. That they’re new and have no history.