Pochteca (singular pochtecatl) were professional, long-distance traveling merchants in the Aztec Empire. The trade or commerce was referred to as pochtecayotl...

recipient to tribute) and the hereditary class of merchants known as pochteca. These pochteca had various gradations of ranks which granted them certain trading...

The highest officials of the pochteca were the pochteca tlatoque. The pochteca tlatoque were the elder of the pochteca, and were no longer travelers...

Finally, the pochteca were merchants who traveled all of Mesoamerica trading. The membership of this class was based on heredity. Pochteca could become...

where people purchased their daily needs were known as tianguis while pochteca referred to long-distance, professional merchants traders who obtained...

may have originally been a representation of Aztec traders, known as pochtecas, who may have traveled to this region from northern Mesoamerica. These...

prepared using unripe green walnuts Peanut liqueur Peanut Lolita (peanut) Pochteca Almond Liqueur Ratafia (brandy flavored with almonds, fruit, or fruit kernels;...

century. During this campaign, which lasted 4 years, a group of Mexica pochteca merchants were put under siege by the enemy forces. This was important...

at their enthronement. The deity was also one of the patron gods of the pochteca merchant class. Stone sculptures of Xiuhtecuhtli were ritually buried as...

merchants, formal ambassadors, messengers, and spies. Merchants, called pochteca (singular: pochtecatl), were perhaps the most valued source of intelligence...