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Nepantian Nurab War
A Nurab warrior
Date 1530–1560 Location primarily Inik Xalisco Result Tepanec victory Nurab driven off of Nepantia the Teenek and Western Peripheral Nahuatl are integrated into the Tepanec Tlatholoyan
Belligerents
Pavirata	Tepanec Tlatholoyan Template:Country data Te Inik Kingdoms Template:Country data Xalisco Template:Country data Michcuaco

The Nurab Holy Wars in Nepantia are a serie of campaigns started by Pavirata against the Teenek kingdoms and Nawal kingdoms at first, and then against the coalition led by Azcapotzalco. These campaigns had been thought by the Nurabs as "aggressive Proselytism and its participants as both holy warriors and missionaries. A more material goal was to gain an hold on lands and an access of rare ressources such as chcoolate, rubber and precious gems now that Pavirata was cut from the Thae Kaew Empire's trade network.

During the War, the Nurab would establish a few short-lived settlements and try to convert the local populations. But their violence and tendency for raids and plunders made these attempts fruitless. By the 1550, native rulers had called Azcapotzalco for help and, now that it had recovered from the Teltetzaltin Plague, it was free to do so and sent armies to fight against the Nurab invaders. As such, while the Holy Wars failed to expand the Nurabinic world, it did allow for the weakened Tepanecs to reaffirm their dominant position and kickstart the Second Wave of Expansion of the Tlatholoyan, bringing the western Nahuatl and the Teenek into its orbit.

Background

The Nurab Wars took place in a context of political fragmentation all around the Daeshan Ocean. The Thae Kaew Empire and Azcapotzalco had fought for over 20 years during the Totonac Wars. The displacements, troops movements, and death provoked by these wars led to the creation of the Teltetzaltin Plague which greatly weakened the Tepanecs. Hearing of the news, the Thae prepared a new campaign against their Nepantian ennemy. But the collect of the funds and manpower required for such an expedition sparkled unrests in the populations that considered they were already overburdened by the taxes previously raised for the other millitaristic endeavors of the Empire. These unrests became riots and then rebellion. Among the succesful ones there was the Keiyan Revolution, but also the Nurab Revolution that led to the independence of Pavirata. This revolution was sprear-headed by the Nurab warrior-societies and their gurus. The resulting theocracy quickly revitalized the non-theistic teachings of the religion, rejecting the numerous gods worshipped by the populations, including "foreign importations" such as Quetzalcoatl.

Nepantia-Pavirata relations

Since before the Thae Kaew, the kingdoms of today Pavirata and Calpullali had extensive trade contacts, leading to trader communities living in each others lands, slowly building up syncretic cultures where contacts were especially commons. The presence of the Thae and their control over trades had greatly diminished these contacts, but communities of Teenek and Nawals still existed in coastal cities of Pavirata. These communities had preserved the worship of their own gods, especially Quetzalcoatl. Despite participating in the anti-Thae revolts, they were quickly targeted by the Nurab because of their "amoral practices" such as bloodletting and animal sacrifices and because of their refusal to convert. The following massacres are seen by some historians as a prelude to the following holy wars.