Friday, February 10, 2012

I cannot find this word in my spanish dictionary: "macehuales." Anyone?

macehual (Aztec social class)

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function in Aztec society

...and the professional warriors. Society was divided into three well-defined castes. At the top were the pipiltin, nobles by birth and members of the royal lineage. Below them was the macehual class, the commoners who made up the bulk of the population. At the base of the social structure were the mayeques, or serfs, attached to private or state-owned rural estates....|||Do you have the right spelling? Or which dialect is it because every country have different words for the same thing. Because that could be your problem, I have not heard of those.|||wow ... I never seen that word ...|||Who told you to look in a Spanish dictionary ?|||It means "indigenous commoners". Mexican society is polarised into the very wealthy and the very poor (servant classes).



Macehuales refers to the latter.
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