History of Zacatecas

widespread struggle in many central-western Mexican states from 1926 to 1929

thumb|right|400px|Chichimeca peoples in Central Mexico at the start of the [[Chichimeca War ]] thumb|Aridoamerica|300x300px Chichimeca () is the name that the Nahua peoples of Mexico generically applied to nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples who were established in present-day Bajío region of Mexico. Chichimeca carried the same meaning as the Roman term "barbarian" that described Germanic tribes. The name, with its pejorative sense, was adopted by the Spanish Empire. "For the Spanish, the Chichimecas were a wild, nomadic people who lived north of the Valley of Mexico. They had no fixed dwelling p

province & indendancy in New Spain, Spain

1540–1542 war

16th-century war between the Spanish Empire and indigenous peoples of Mexico

The Guachichil, Cuauchichil, or Quauhchichitl are an exonym for an Indigenous people of Mexico. Prior to European contact, they occupied the most extensive territory of all the Indigenous Chichimeca tribes in pre-Columbian central Mexico.

thumb|350px|Map of the Caxcan and surrounding nations during the 16th century The Caxcan are an ethnic group who are Indigenous to western and north-central Mexico, particularly the regions corresponding to modern-day Zacatecas, southern Durango, Jalisco, Colima, Aguascalientes, Nayarit. The Caxcan language is most often described as an ancient variant of Nahuatl and is a member of the Uto-Aztecan language family. The last generation of natively fluent Caxcan language speakers came to an end in the 1890s, according to anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička. Despite this having long been conflated by ant

16th century Spanish conquistador