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of or pertaining to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another

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  • Náhuatl: Uto-Aztecan language spoken by native Mexicans who, in preconquest era, inhabited the central Valley of Mexico and points southeast, as far as Guatemala....
  • Yet his environment is revealed not as the natural paradise lesser writers edit, out of black yearning for a preconquest state of being or white yearning for a...
  • TheEdwards model was augmented and revised by subsequent generations of historians, most notably by John Lloyd and William Stubbs in their work on preconquest Wales,...
  • 13The horror of this first pestilence comes through in several Nahua chronicles, the best-known of these being the account recorded by Sahagún in the General History of the...
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