thx for the diabeetus

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Mexico didn’t exist back then. Europeans hadn’t conquered and genocided and created states in the Americas.

This was native (indigenous) americans. Nearly 10’000 years before the word Mexico was first uttered.

What did the natives call the region in their language?

I don’t know where exactly maize was cultivated, but Mexico comes from city Mexico-Tenochtitlan.

They found millenia old traces of maize in the valley of the Rio Balsa in Xihuatoxtla and also in the valley of Tehuacán.

Something about Coxcatlán phase. Couldn’t find a name of a people who would have been responsible for the domestication.

It’s easiest to say it happened in Mesoamerica.