Did the Mayans and Aztecs ever interact?

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When the Aztecs were around, the Mayans were mostly finished!. Was there ever interaction, trade, wars, etc between the remaining Mayan city-states and the Aztec people!. I know that the Aztec calendar was based on the Mayan one!. How did it get there!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Check out the Maya Chronicles, edited by Daniel G!. Brinton!. Here is a sampling to wet your appetite:

"It is noteworthy that these two partially civilized races, the Mayas and the Aztecs, though differing radically in language, had legends which claimed a community of origin in some indefinitely remote past!. The Aztec traditions refer to the Huastecs"!.

"At a very remote period the Mexicans, under their leader Mecitl, from whom they took their name, arrived in boats at the mouth of the river Panuco, at the place called Panotlan, which name means “where one arrives by sea!.” With them were the Olmecs under their leader Olmecatl, the Huastecs, under their leader Huastecatl, the Mixtecs and others!. They journeyed together and in friendship southward, down the coast, quite to the volcanoes of Guatemala, thence to Tamoanchan, which is described as the terrestial paradise, and afterwards, some of them at least, northward and eastward, toward the shores of the Gulf!."

"The annals of the Aztecs contain frequent allusions to the Huastecs!. The most important contest between the two nations took place in the reign of Montezuma the First (1440-1464)!. The attack was made by the Aztecs, for the alleged reason that the Huastecs had robbed and killed Aztec merchants on their way to the great fairs in Guatemala!. The Huastecs are described as numerous, dwelling in walled towns, possessing quantities of maize, beans, feathers and precious stones, and painting their faces!. They were singally defeated by the troops of Montezuma, but not reduced to vassalage"!.

"The Mayans had frequent mercantile relations with these powerful neighbors, they borrowed many words from the Nahuatl tongue, and single chiefs in Yucatan formed alliances with the Aztec rulers, and introduced Aztec warriors even into Mayapan, as is shown by the Chronicles in this work, and also by the fact that a small colony of Aztecs, descendants of these mercenaries, was living in the province of Canul, west of Merida, when the Spaniards conquered the country (Landa, Relacion, p!. 54)!. Therefore the Aztecs were no strangers to the Mayas, and doubtless the learned members of the priesthood and nobles in the fifteenth century were quite well aware of the existence of the powerful empire of Anahuac"!.

The Aztecs assimilated the better parts of Mayan culture, like other have done, and continue to do to this day!. This is how the calenders are similar: they share a similar origin!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

There was enough trade between Mexico and South America to serve as a conduit for the epidemic of small pox, contracted by the peoples of Middle American from Cortez and his Spaniards, to spread to Peru!. The disease devastated the Inca several years before Pizarro showed up in 1532, weakening them demographically, politically, militarily, economically, and spiritually!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

yea although briefly they enjoyed having sex with each other before killing themselves in a mass genocide
the leading priest of their kingdoms agreed that the Gods wished this and so it happenedWww@QuestionHome@Com

I think they were probably too far away from each other!.Www@QuestionHome@Com