What is the gran chichimeca?

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What is the gran chichimeca?

Answer 1

I live in the area called by the spaniard conquerors as "Gran Chichimeca" (it means "Great Chichimica").

Chichimecas were native indigeanuos tribes, nomades, most of them náhuatl speakers (aztecs language). "Chichimeca" means in náhuatl "dog without owner", meaning "barbarian". Chichimecas were barbarians from the north to the eye of aztecs.

Sparks gave you the location of the area the spaniards called "Gran chichimeca" (english speakers would have called it "chichimecaland").

Since chichimecas were actually many tribes, those were easily "took away" (killed) by spaniards. Those indians didn't get mix, spaniards brought into this area pacific friendly indians from other areas (like talxcala and others) to work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichimeca

Answer 2

La Gran Chichimeca was a term used by the Spanish conquistadores of the 16th century to refer to an area of the northern central Mexican plateau, a territory which today is encompassed by the modern Mexican states of Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Nayarit, Guanajuato and Zacatecas. They derived the term from the Aztec who referred to the nomadic tribes of the area as “chichimeca”.

Answer 3

I love Chimichangas!