Tlaxcaltec

The Tlaxcalans (sometimes Tlaxcallans), or Tlaxcalteca, are an Indigenous Nahua people who originate from the Confederacy of Tlaxcala (modern day Tlaxcala, Mexico). The Confederacy was instrumental in overthrowing the Aztec Empire in 1521, alongside conquistadors from the Kingdom of Spain. The Tlaxcalans remained allies of the Spanish for 300 years until the Independence of Mexico in 1821.

==Pre-colonial history== The Tlaxcalteca were a Nahua group, one of—alongside the Mexica and five others—the seven tribes which migrated from their original homeland in the north. After settling in (what is now called) Tlaxcala, they formed a conglomeration of three distinct ethnic groups—speakers of Nahuatl, Otomi, and Pinome—that comprised the four city-states (altepetl) of Tlaxcallān, or Tlaxcala. The Nahuatl-speakers eventually became the dominant ethnic group; and, though the four cities were supposed to have had equal status within the confederation, the city of Tizatlan was effectively controlling Tlaxcala by the time of European contact.