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Mexica is a board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 2002 by Ravensburger in German and Rio Grande Games in English. Mexica was awarded 5th prize in the 2002 Deutscher Spiele Preis.
Mexica is the third game in the Mask Trilogy, after Tikal and Java. In the game, players attempt to partition the city of Tenochtitlan in Lake Texoco into districts, and then gain influence over the most developed districts.
The Mexica were a pre-Columbian people of central Mexico, though some would think it was the more feminine cognate of the country name.
Mexica may also refer to:
- Mexica (board game), a board game designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling
- Mexica (book), a 2005 novel by Norman Spinrad
The Mexica ( Nahuatl: Mēxihcah, ; the singular is Mēxihcatl ) or Mexicas — were an indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico, known today as the rulers of the Aztec Empire.
The Mexica were a Nahua people who founded their two cities Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco on raised islets in Lake Texcoco around AD 1200. After the rise of the Aztec Triple Alliance, the Tenochca Mexica (that is, the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan), assumed a senior position over their two allied cities — Texcoco and Tlacopan.
The Mexica are eponymous of the placename Mexico Mēxihco . This refers to the interconnected settlements in the valley which became the site of what is now Mexico City, which held natural, geographical, and population advantages as the metropolitan center of the region of the future Mexican state. This area was expanded upon in the wake of the Spanish conquest and administered from the former Aztec capital as New Spain.
Like many of the peoples around them, the Mexica spoke Nahuatl. The form of Nahuatl used in the 16th century, when it began to be written in the alphabet brought by the Spanish, is known as Classical Nahuatl. Nahuatl is still spoken today by over 1.5 million people.
Usage examples of "mexica".
At the same time, the King got rid of that little she-dwarf, named Mexica, in whose insufferable talk and insufferable presence the Queen took delight.
For all Alvin knew, Bowie would emerge from the encounter with half the Mexica worshiping him as a particularly bloodthirsty new god.
With such vile sacrifices they conjured up the devil, or the gods of the Mexica, or African gods, or ancient hobgoblins of European myth.
What if all the Mexica weapons went soft or flat-out disappeared, as once happened with my lucky knife?
It made him feel like he was just a couple of steps away from a Mexica sacrifice.
I want to meet some of them Mexica, the ones who tear the beating heart out of their sacrifices.
I hear that the Mexica castrate the big boss before they cut out his heart.
Which made Calvin wonder if there was fog along the coast, too, and fog between the Mexica lands and the lands that Tenskwa-Tawa had taken under his protection.
Some spoke Spanish, and most spoke the language of the Mexica, but both those languages were a mystery to him.
There are plenty of tribes that live in those dry lands, and plenty of trade and travel back and forth, and stories about how the Mexica rose up against the Spanish and drove them out, except the five thousand they kept for sacrifice, one a day, his heart ripped out of his living body.
The Navaho were the last wave, the Mexica the first, but they did not trust in the greensong.
A group of white men is heading for Mexico City and they will surely be killed, either by the Mexica or by the volcano.
The Mexica backed off, the horses shying and neighing, but then dismounted and prepared to fire through the flames.
It was quite a scramble to find all the muskets and close them off before the tiring started, but it helped that the Mexica commander kept shouting for them to surrender, while the panicky horses kept the Mexica in an uproar long enough for Calvin to finish the job.
The first city they came to, the alcalde came out to them and insisted that the people of this place were not Mexica and begged the mighty priest they had with them not to harm them.