Angatahuacan Republic
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Angatahuacan Republic Totechiuhcahuan Angatahuaca | |||||||||
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| 744-1910 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Angatahuaca | ||||||||
| Common languages | Nahuatl Purépecha | ||||||||
| Religion | Cozauism | ||||||||
| Government | Cuauhtlatollo | ||||||||
| Historical era | Medieval-Early Modern | ||||||||
• Foundation of Angatahuaca | 744 | ||||||||
• Second Tariata | 650-750 | ||||||||
• Hegemony | 965-1290 | ||||||||
• Omehueyatlatoloyan Rule of Two Oceans | 1390-1650 | ||||||||
| 1650-1660 | |||||||||
| 1910 | |||||||||
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The Angatahuacan Republic (Nahuatl: Totechiuhcahuan Angatahuaca) was a hegemonic city-state in what is now southeastern littoral Zacapican and the direct predecessor to both the present day city of Angatahuaca and the modern state of the United Zacapine Republics. Angatahuaca would eventually emerge as one of the pre-eminent maritime powers of the Age of Sail, ruling over a bi-continental empire sometimes referred to as the Great Heron or as the Heron Empire. Its golden age, the Omehueyatlatoloyan period, would last more than two centuries and mark the apogee of Zacapine civilization and global power. Angatahuaca would endure more than a millennium as an independent power before its fall to the western rebellion that would evolve into the Zacapine Revolution, a longevity primarily attributed to the stability of its government which was able to endure most major shocks.
For its entire history, the Angatahuacan Republic was governed by an aristocratic class known as the Cuauhtli descended from the original Purépecha founders. The lingua franca of the city as well as its empire, however, was Nahuatl, thanks to the widespread distribution of Nahua groups across the continent since the fall of Tolan. In particular, Angatahuaca was influenced by a large number of eastern Pochutlan Nahua peoples under its rule, many of whom would become the earliest conquered subjects to attain Angatahuacan citizenship and gain political rights within the Republic. The classical east Nahuatl dialect would be propagated across the Huitzlan landmass that comprises modern day Zacapican, becoming the antecedent of present day Zacapine Nahuatl.
Angatahuaca's thalassocracy brought about an unprecedented era of trade and exchange between the regions of Huitzlan which had historically been regarded as wholly separate, cut off as they were by some of the tallest mountains in the world and the notoriously dangerous southern seas that only the exceptional seamanship of Angatahuaca's maritime legacy inherited from the Purépecha could overcome. Just as a linguistic homogeneity had emerged surrounding Nahuatl as the language of exchange, a broader process of cultural blending took place under Angatahuaca's unipolar domination of the region that saw the distinctions between the myriad indigenous groups blur over time as peoples mixed and exchanged customs and adopted standard practices under Angatahuaca's empire. Most notably, the rich tapestry of indigenous religions across Huitzlan would almost entirely be swallowed up by Cozauist religious doctrine.