This civilization's history is described in the Nuttall Codex, which chronicles the life of perhaps their greatest ruler, Eight Deer Tiger Claw or Ocho Venado, who brought these people together and built up their major center at Tilantongo.
This civilization's history is described in the Nuttall Codex, which chronicles the life of perhaps their greatest ruler, Eight Deer Tiger Claw or Ocho Venado, who brought these people together and built up their major center at Tilantongo. Their name literally means "cloud people" or the people of cloud land, and they referred to themselves as the "people of the rain" or Nuu-savi. From 1000 to 1300 AD, they were pushed southward by the Chichimecs and Toltecs, at which point they displaced the ►Zapotecs and took over their city of Monte Alban, until their eventual conquest by the Aztecs in the 15th century. FTP, name these people of the Oaxaca valley. 
This civilization's history is described in the Nuttall Codex, which chronicles the life of perhaps their greatest ruler, Eight Deer Tiger Claw or Ocho Venado, who brought these people together and built up their major center at Tilantongo.
Mixtecs