Mexica
it was the name of the Nahua Aztec tribe, the Mexica
The Mexica (Nahuatl) were an indigenous people of Mexico, known today as the Aztecs. There is disagreement over the meaning of the name Mexica, and the place name Mexico (Mexihco) where they lived. The name of Mexico comes from the Nahuatl name Mexihco.
The Aztecs. They knew themselves as Mexica, and their city-state was known as Mexico-Tenochtitlan.
Mexico got its name from the Mexica people (wrongly named as Aztecs by contemporary archeologists). It comes from their capital city name: Mexico-Tenochtitlan. It means "place of cactus in the middle of the Moon Lake".
The Aztec (or Mexica, as they knew themselves) civilization.
Mexican or "Mexica" itself was the name of the native group. There were hundreds of other smaller cultures as well in Mexico, but the word Mexican and Mexico comes from the Mexica Triple Alliance, which arguably had the largest population.
Aztec's (Mexica) got their name from archaeologists. The true name for the group of people is Mexica. When they walked the land and were asked what they were, they replied Mexica and not Aztec. Aztec can refer to a person who has origins in Aztlan. Aztlan is the land the United States stole from Mexico in the Mexican-American war and is part of the land the indigenous people known as the Mexica walked through after crossing over the Bering Straits, to get to this continent.
The Aztecs, today they are called the Mexica's
Mexica The word Aztec is relatively new. The Mexica people still inhabit Mexico.
1325 AD
Yes. Mexica is how the Aztecs knew of themselves.